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Professor of cell biology and physiology
Expertise: cancer cell proliferation, Cell cycle control
Bio: Piwnica-Worms' laboratory is interested in how the human cell division cycle is regulated and how perturbations in cell cycle control contribute to human cancer. The cell division cycle is a series of temporally regulated events with each event being dependent upon the proper execution of the preceding event. Cells have evolved surveillance mechanisms (checkpoints) that block cell cycle transitions in response to damaged and unreplicated DNA. Perturbations in proteins involved in cell cycle progression and in checkpoint control can lead to genomic instability which contributes to the onset and progression of many human cancers. Piwnica-Worms is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
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A 'Nobel' new professorship
Piwnica-Worms named Gerty T. Cori Professor
March 27,
2008 --
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Helen Piwnica-Worms has been named the first Gerty T. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine. The appointment was announced by Larry Shapiro, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs. The professorship is named in honor of a University faculty member who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with her husband and fellow faculty member Carl Cori in 1947.
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Viewing cancer at the molecular level
Innovative molecular imaging center gets five-year, $10 million renewal grant
Nov. 8,
2007 -- An innovative cancer imaging center at the School of Medicine has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant will fund a second cycle of research at the Washington University Molecular Imaging Center, where scientists from many different specialties collaborate on advanced imaging projects.
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Diabetes protein
Protein's links to sugar metabolism may help treat diabetes
April 23,
2007 -- Scientists have linked a protein to regulation of the body's use of the sugar glucose. In the process, they illustrated the protein's potential as a target for new drugs to treat diabetes and obesity.
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