Gavin Schnitzler, Ph.D.

Dr. Schnitzler is an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Investigator in the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute. Dr. Schnitzler received a B.A. in Biochemistry and in Psychology from Swarthmore College in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Biology from U.C. San Diego in 1993. Dr. Schnitzler completed his post-doctoral training, as a Helen Hay Whitney fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Kingston at Mass. General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, in 1999. Dr. Schnitzler began his independent studies in the Biochemistry Department at TUSM, and moved to the MCRI in 2009.

Dr. Schnitzler's laboratory is studying the roles of chromatin changes in the regulation of transcription by nuclear hormone receptors, including Estrogen Receptor and Glucocorticoid Receptor. The lab uses a combination of standard and high-throughput techniques to understand how the genetic and epigenetic factors that modulate chromatin structure give rise to tissue-specific transcriptional responses to glucocorticoids or estrogen.