Danesh Moazed

Danesh Moazed is a Professor of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for unveiling the mechanism of the RNAi-mediated heterochromatin establishment. His lab currently works on chromatin biology and epigenetic inheritance.

Moazed received an undergraduate degree and doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a doctoral student, he worked with Dr. Harry F. Noller, investigating the structure and function of ribosomal RNA. In 2019, he was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2023, the National Academy of Sciences elected Moazed as a member of the Academy.