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Toru Nakamura, PhD
Cancer Biology Research Program
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
College of Medicine
Email: nakamut@uic.edu
Toru Nakamura, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC. The Nakamura Lab is interested in understanding the regulatory mechanism that allows stable maintenance of telomeres in fission yeast. Deregulation of telomere maintenance mechanisms has been found to be a key event in tumorigenesis, thus mechanistic insights on how various proteins collaborate to generate functional telomeres might lead to effective methods for preventing cancer.
Education
- PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
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Research Focus
- Cancer Biology
- Telomere
- DNA Damage
- DNA Damage Checkpoint
- DNA Replication
- Genome Stability