Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D. - UC Irvine School of Medicine

FACULTY

Academic Address:
University of California, Irvine
2028 Hewitt Hall
ZC 7700
Irvine, CA 92697

Email:
dwallace@uci.edu

Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

Dr. Wallace's work at MAMMAG has earned him recognition in the field of genetic and molecular research. He has been profiled in several recent articles including:

The Morning Read: A man on a mission - the OC Register.

Outsider looking in - Today@UCI.

Board Certifications:
American Board of Medical Genetics in Clinical Genetics, CLinical Biochemical Genetics, and Molecular Genetics
American Board of Pediatrics

Summary:
Dr. Wallace is one of the nation’s leading genetics researchers, helping to discover how defects in inherited genes contribute to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Through his research, Wallace has shown that defects in mitochondrial genes are major contributors to degenerative diseases, cancer and aging. A recent study of his, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows a link between mitochondrial DNA mutations and prostate cancer. He's using that link now to test non-toxic drugs to kill prostate cancer in mice.

Dr. Wallace has published over 260 articles in journals such as Scientific American, Science, Nature Genetics, and The American Journal of Human Genetics.