Kent Golic, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah and a member of the Nuclear Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation Program.

Golic’s research focuses on the relationship between chromosome structure and function. He studies telomeres, which are special nucleic acid/protein structures, and how the regulation of telomere maintenance may play a role in cancer. Using fruit flies as a model, Golic’s research has demonstrated how the loss of a single telomere may be a primary event that puts a cell on the road to cancer.

Golic received a bachelor’s degree from Kansas State University and a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle.