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Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Biochemistry, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and the Executive Director of the Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Dr. Krasnow holds a PhD in Biochemistry and an MD in Medicine, both from the University of Chicago. He came to Stanford University for his postdoctoral work with Dr. David Hogness, one of the founding faculty members in the department of biochemistry.

He has won numerous awards for his research into how the complex three-dimensional structure of the lung is genetically encoded and maintained. Dr. Krasnow and his research team use new and emerging genetic and genomic tools to probe, at single-cell resolution, the molecular programs that control development, renewal, regeneration, and function of the lung, with the goal of discovering new ways of detecting, classifying, and treating lung cancer as well as other deadly lung diseases.