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Alan Diamond, PhD

Translational Oncology Research Program

Professor 
Department of Pathology
College of Medicine

Email: adiamond@uic.edu

Alan Diamond, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC. His research is focused on the role selenoproteins play in prostate cancer etiology. His interest in selenium-containing proteins stems from his graduate studies, during which he characterized the very unusual tRNA that inserts selenocysteine during protein synthesis in response to specific UGA codons in the mRNAs of encoding selenoproteins. The selenoproteins he has chosen to focus on have either been implicated in cancer due to their respective genes containing polymorphisms associated with cancer risk or reduced levels being associated with cancer development.

Language : English

Education

  • PhD, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York

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Research Focus

  • Translational Oncology
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Molecular Carcinogenesis
  • Selenoproteins
  • Polymorphisms
  • Health Disparities