Martin J Walsh

Martin J. Walsh is a Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, holding concurrent appointments in Pharmacological Sciences, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Pediatrics. His research focuses on epigenetic mechanisms, chromatin structure, and their roles in cancer and developmental biology. He has been recognized with the 2010 Senior Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation.

Education: BS from State University of New York at Buffalo and PhD from Columbia University. His work integrates biochemical, structural, and genomic approaches to study transcription factors like ZNF217 and CUTL1, as well as long non-coding RNAs in chromatin regulation. Collaborations include projects with Dr. Gail Mandel (Vollum Institute) and Dr. Ming-Ming Zhou.

Key research themes include the molecular basis of chromatin remodeling, oncogene activity in cancer, and epigenetic programming during development. His lab uses advanced techniques like ChIP-Seq and structural biology to dissect histone modification dynamics.