de Lange, Titia

<p>Mar 20, 2013 06:40 PM</p>

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&nbsp;great talk today in Berg Hall, &nbsp;LKSC at 4PM...

500 people attend.</p>

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PhD in biochem &nbsp;U Amsterdam</p>

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1985 to 1990 &nbsp;postdoc with Harold Varmus at UCSF;

one of the first to isolate telomeres of human chromosomes.</p>

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Prof at Rockefeller in 1997.</p>

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Director of &nbsp;Rock U &nbsp;Anderson Center for Cancer Res...</p>

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Royal Dutch Acady of Sci,</p>

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telomeres &nbsp;critical for maintaining stability of chromosomes.</p>

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Defic of telomere fxn can cause &nbsp;genomic alteration and cancer;</p>

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