Aneuploidy and Cancer - A Complicated Relationship

NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Eminent Lecture Dr. Amon received her B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with Ruth Lehmann at the Whitehead Institute and was subsequently named a Whitehead Fellow for three years. In 1999, she joined the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Biology where she holds the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Chair for Cancer Research. Dr. Amon ’ s honors include the 2003 Alan T. Waterman Award, the 2007 Paul Marks Prize, the 2008 National Academy of Sciences Molecular Biology Award, and the 2013 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine. Dr. Amon is a Member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Science, and a Foreign Associate to EMBO. At the Koch Institute, Dr. Amon studies the molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division with a focus on the pathways that regulate chromosome segregation. Dr. Amon also studies how errors in this process lead to diseases such as cancer and Down Syndrome and how they impact the aging process.Air date: 10/23/2017 3:00:00 PM
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