Feroz Papa

Dr. Papa is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF. He completed his medical and graduate school training in Biochemistry at the University of Chicago, followed by postgraduate clinical training in internal medicine and endocrinology and a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. Dr. Papa is a member of the UCSF Diabetes Center and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3). For over a decade, his lab has been studying the fundamental biology- and small molecule modulation- of the IRE1 life-death switch. He is a recipient of the Charles R. Culpeper Scholar Award, a Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the National Institute of Health Director's New Innovator Award. He has been inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), is a Harrington Discovery Institute Scholar-Innovator, and has been elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP).