Dana Carroll, PhD, is a professor and chair in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Utah and a member of the Nuclear Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation Program.

A basic feature of all cancers is that DNA (genetic material) is altered, resulting in abnormal cell functions such as excess growth. Carroll studies the basic processes of how our genetic material is broken and repaired. He has also developed methods to create genetic changes in model organisms so that these changes can be studied and understood.

Carroll received a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.