Konstantin Salnikow, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Cancer Biology (DCB)
Dr. Konstantin Salnikow manages a portfolio of grants focusing on cell death and survival pathways, cell stress in cancer, redox biology, metal ion metabolism and the role of aging/sex in cancer biology.
He is particularly interested in the role of metal ion metabolism in cancer.
Research Programs
Dr. Salnikow manages a DCB cooperative agreement program:
Background
Before coming to DCB, Dr. Konstantin Salnikow was a staff scientist at NCI and studied molecular mechanisms of metal carcinogenesis. Prior to that, he was an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU.
Education
- Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Academy of Sciences USSR
- B.S., Cell Biology, St. Petersburg University