Research in the Mostoslavsky Laboratory focuses on understanding how compaction of DNA, namely chromatin dynamics, modulates biological processes including gene transcription, DNA recombination and DNA repair.

His laboratory study a group of protein deacetylases named sirtuins, that have roles in metabolism, lifespan and cancer.

AWARDS

Recipient of the 2002 Science-Amersham Prize

Recipient of the 2012 MGH Research Scholar Award