Awards

National Academies - 2019

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About Brian R. Calvi

Brian Calvi completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Connecticut and his master’s and doctoral degree at Harvard University. As a professor in biology at Indiana University, his research focuses on investigating the mechanisms of normal cell cycle regulation to fully comprehend what goes awry in cancer cells. He also uses Drosophila (fruit flies) as a model system to discover how cells regulate their division and the copying of their DNA, including how aberrations in these processes can cause disease, such as developmental malformations.

He was awarded over $1.2 million by the National Institute of Health to study the regulation of cell division and growth and their relationship to genome instability in cancer. Additionally, he serves as co-director of FlyBase, which is a consortium of IU, Harvard, and Cambridge University, the world’s most comprehensive database of fruit fly DNA sequence data. In 2019 he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.