FF Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last. Iirst. middle): I lari/ Joseph 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
Give the following information for the key personnel and consultants and collaborators. Begin with the principal 
investigator/program director. Photocopy this page for each person. 
NAME 
POSITION TITLE 
Ilan, Joseph 
Professor 
EDUCATION (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.) 
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION 
DEGREE 
YEAR 
CONFERRED 
FIELD OF STUDY 
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 
B.Sc. 
1960 
Biology 
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 
M.Sc. 
1962 
Biology 
McGill University, Montreal -Quebec, Canada 
Ph.D. 
1965 
Biochemistry 
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Concluding with present position, list, in chronological order, previous employment expenence, and 
honors. Key personnel include the pnncipal investigator and any other individuals who participate in the scientific development or execution of the project. 
Key personnel typically will include all individuals with doctoral or other professional degrees, but in some projects will include individuals at the masters or 
baccalaureate level provided they contribute in a substantive way to the scientific development or execution of the project Include present membership on 
any Federal Government public advisory committee. List, in chronological order, the titles, all authors, and complete references to all publications during the 
past three years and to representative earlier publications pertinent to this application. DO NOT EXCEED TWO PAGES. 
Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Institute of Pathology, 1992-Present. 
Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Dept, of Developmental Genetics & Anatomy, 
1976-1992. 
Professor of General Medical Science (Oncology) Case Western Reserve University, School of 
Medicine, (Secondary Appointment) 1987-1992. 
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Dept, of Developmental Genetics & 
Anatomy, 1971-1976, Tenure 7/1/71 
Associate Professor, Temple University, Dept, of Biology, 1970-1971, Tenure 7/1/70 
Assistant Professor, Temple University, Dept, of Biology, 1966-1970 
Research Associate, Rockefeller University, in collaboration with Dr. Fritz Lipmann, 1964-1966 
Selected Publications (From a total of 80) 
Ilan, J., and Ilan, Judith. A Possible Role of the AUG Condon in the Initiation of Polypeptide 
Synthesis in a Eukaryotic Organism. (1970). Biochem. Biophys. ACTA 224:614-619. 
Ilan, J., Ilan, Judith, and Patel, N. Mechanism of Gene Expression in tenebrio Molitor; 
Juvenile Hormone Determination of Translational Control Through Transfer Ribonucleic 
Acid and Enzyme. (1970). J. Biol. Chem. 245:1275-1281 
Ilan, Joseph. Release Factor Regulating Termination of complete Protein in a Eukaryotic 
Organism. (1973). Journal of Molecular Biology 77:437-448 
Ilan, Joseph, and Singer, Marcus. Sampling of the Leucine Pool from the Growing Polypeptide 
Chain: Difference in Leucine Specific Activity in Peptidyl-RNA from Free and Membrane 
Bound Polysomes. (1974). J. Mol. Biol. 91:39-51 
Ilan, Judith and Ilan, Joseph. Requirement for Homologous Rabbit Reticulocyte Initiation 
Factor 3 for Initiation of Alpha and Beta-Globin mRNA Translation in a Crude Protozoal 
Cell-Free System. (1976). J. Biol. Chem. 251:5718-5725 
Bast, R.E., Garfield, S.A. , Gehrke, L., and Ilan, Joseph. Coordination of Ribosome Content 
and Polysome Formation during Estradiol Stimulation of Vitellogenin Synthesis in 
Immature Male Chick Livers. (1977). Proc. Natl. Acd. Sci. 74:3133-3137 
Johnson, T.R. and Ilan, Joseph. Protein Associated with Poly (A+) RNA of Cockerel Liver: 
Effects of Estradiol Stimulation. (1982). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 79:4088-4092 
Johnson, T.R. and J. Ilan. Large-scale Isolation of Plasirid DNA and Purification of Phage 
DNA using Hydroxy lapetite Chromatography. (1983). Analytical Biochemistry 132:20-25 
Johnson, T.R. and J. Ilan. Hybrid Selection of Messenger Ribonucleoprotein for Serum 
Albumin: Analysis of Specific Message-bound Proteins. (1985). Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci. 
87:7327-7329 
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