Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Jianhua Fu

Assistant professor, molecular biology and genetics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Crystal structure determination of RNA polymerase II. In eukaryotes, like humans, genes in chromosomes are read by gigantic molecular machines called RNA polymerase holoenzymes composed of tens of different protein subunits. Fu seeks to understand the three-dimensional workings of these multilayered protein machines.
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, department of structural biology, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Academic background: B.S., biophysics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1983; and Ph.D., protein crystallography, University of Pittsburgh, 1994.

Danny Manor

Assistant professor, nutritional sciences
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Regulation of mammalian cell growth; cancer, oncogenes and anti-oxidants.
Previous position: Senior research associate, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, 1997-2000.
Academic background: B.Sc., biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1982; and Ph.D., structural biology/biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1989.

Robert L. Strawderman III

Associate professor, biometrics
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Research interests cover a broad spectrum of statistical theory and applications. Current research focuses on developing statistical methods for analyzing time-to-event data (for example, post-treatment survival times for breast cancer patients) and recurrent phenomena (for example, hospitalization rates for patients with chronic diseases and rates of opportunistic infections among HIV patients). He will begin teaching an undergraduate course on statistical inference next spring.

Previous position: Associate professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1992-2000.

Academic background: B.A., mathematics, Rutgers University, 1988; Sc.M., biostatistics, 1990; and Sc.D., biostatistics, 1992, both from Harvard University.

December 14, 2000