MD-Ph.D. Class of 2013 - Harvard Medical School - Harvard University

HARVARD M.D.-Ph.D. PROGRAM Class of 2013Christos George TsokosI was born in Maryland to parents who had emigrated from Greeceto pursue research at the National Institutes of Health. Although my sisterescaped and studied the law, for me, the apple did not fall far from the tree.My first exposures to research were in high school, sequencing the SpanishInfluenza Virus with Jeffrey Taubenberger and analyzing gene expression insolid tumors with Javed Khan.I went to college at Cornell University, graduating with a B.S. in Biology.I spent summers with John Lambris developing inhibitors of complementactivation. I spent the school years with George Hess measuring altered kineticsof mutated neuroreceptors found in hereditary epilepsies.After starting at Harvard Medical School, I worked with Bob Sauer onAAA+ proteins, molecular motors used in a variety of cell functions. I thenjoined the laboratory of Michael Laub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyfor my thesis work on the molecular mechanisms of cellular asymmetryin the model organism Caulobacter crescentus. Next, I will start residencyin Pathology at the University of California, San Francisco.I am grateful to the Harvard MD/PhD and MIT Biology programs fortheir endless support. I would like to thank my advisor, Michael Laub, for thehours invested in my development. I would like to thank my fiancée, EmmaLubin, my parents, George and Maria, my sister, Sophia, and all my friendsand family. Finally, my two cats were exceptionally furry throughout, so it isonly natural to thank them too.23