Dr. Malgorzata Kloc

Malgorzata Kloc is a Weill Cornell professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Houston Methodist Hospital and Houston Methodist Research Institute. She earned her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. Prior to completing her postdoctoral training in Canada, she was a tenured associate professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Warsaw, Poland. She also served as a research associate at the Department of Biology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. While completing her postdoctoral training, she received the AHFMR Research Award from the University of Calgary and the MRC Biotechnology Training Award from Dalhousie University. She joined the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a research scientist for the Department of Molecular Genetics in 1987 and became an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology there in 2006. She joined the Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2008. Her research focuses on investigations into the role of macrophages in the chronic rejection of transplanted organs. She also studied the structural role of mRNA in the organization of the cellular cytoskeleton, localized RNAs, and germ cell development and specification.