Biography:

Professor Francis J. Castellino obtained his B.S in Chemistry from the University of Scranton, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa and was a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University. He currently is the Kleiderer/Pezold Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the WM Keck Center for Transgene Research, University of Notre Dame.  The research interests of Prof. Castellino’s laboratory involve the in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo structure, function, and activation of components of blood coagulation and blood clot dissolution and their relationships to inflammatory and infectious disease.  He, as an author and co-author of more than 500 articles in scholarly journals, which have around 21,000 citations.