Research Interests

Regulation of apoptosis; control of cell survival by the tumor necrosis factor and transforming growth factor beta-receptor superfamilies.

Brief Biography

Dr. Duckett received his Ph.D. from the University of London, England, during which time he worked with Dr. Gary Nabel at the University of Michigan on the regulation of HIV by the transcription factor NF-kB. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Dr. Craig Thompson, where he studied the regulation of apoptosis, before moving to the National Cancer Institute in 1997 as a principal investigator. He joined the Pathology Department at the University of Michigan in 2002, where he has a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine and is a member of the Cancer Center.