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Leslyn Hanakahi, PhD

Cancer Biology Research Program

Associate Professor 
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Retzky College of Pharmacy

Email: hanakahi@uic.edu

Leslyn Hanakahi, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the 
Retzky College of Pharmacy at UIC. She
studies DNA damage and repair as the mechanisms that drive mutagenesis. An aspect of her research investigates repair of DNA double-strand breaks by error-prone non-homologous end joining and processes that direct DNA breaks towards this repair pathway. Another aspect of her research examines the role of lipid peroxidation products in promoting topoisomerase-mediated DNA damage.

Language : English

Education

  • PhD, Yale University

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Research Focus

  • Cancer Biology
  • DNA Damage
  • Double-Strand Break Repair