Nava Segev, PhD

Nava Segev, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. The Segev Lab studies intracellular trafficking in yeast and mammalian systems. Their research is aimed at understanding a basic cellular process, trafficking inside cells, in which proteins and membranes are shuttled between cellular organelles. This process is required for proper functioning of all cells, and therefore for every system of the human body. Elucidation of the mechanisms that regulate trafficking inside cells is relevant to a variety of diseases caused by impaired transport of substances that are either essential, such as insulin in diabetes, growth-factor receptors in cancer and CFTR in cystic fibrosis or detrimental such as in Alzheimer’s disease.