W. Lee Kraus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. He did his graduate research on the regulation of steroid hormone receptor activity in the laboratory of Dr. Benita S. Katzenellenbogen at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and received his Ph.D. in 1994. He did his postdoctoral research on the mechanism of transcriptional activation with chromatin templates in the laboratory of Dr. Jim Kadonaga at the University of California, San Diego. During his postdoctoral work, Dr. Kraus was supported by fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society, California Division. Dr. Kraus joined the faculty in the Department in 1999 where he has been supported by a Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, grants from the National Institutes of Health, and a grant from the American Cancer Society. Dr. Kraus holds a joint appointment in the Department of Pharmacology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. He participates in the graduate fields of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology, Genetic & Development, and Environmental Toxicology at the Ithaca campus, and the graduate field of Pharmacology at the Weill campus. Dr. Kraus` primary teaching interests and responsibilities are in the molecular basis of human disease.