Charles R. Cantor

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Charles Robert Cantor (born August 26, 1942 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American molecular biologist and biotechnologist at Boston University .

There is also a professor of clinical neurology at the University of Pennsylvania , Charles Rodman Cantor.

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Charles Robert Cantor earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. with Ignacio Tinoco . In the same year Cantor received a first professorship (assistant professor) for chemistry at Columbia University, in 1969 he became an associate professor , in 1972 he was given a full professorship for chemistry and life sciences . In 1981 he changed to a professorship for genetics and developmental biology at the medical faculty at Columbia University and temporarily took over as deputy head of biotechnology at their tumor center.

In 1989 Cantor went to the University of California, Berkeley as Professor of Molecular Biology . He had already taken over the management of their Human Genome Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1988 and held it until 1992, when he switched to a professorship for biotechnology and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University . Since 2001 he has also been a visiting professor (adjunct professor) at the University of California, San Diego . In 2010 Cantor retired, but remained scientifically active.

Charles R. Cantor developed methods to large DNA molecules separate , examined structural relationships within complex compounds of proteins and nucleic acids and began to develop new methods for faster DNA sequencing deserved. Cantor's other successes include the development of new variants and analogues of the polymerase chain reaction , the development of bacterial strains for soil remediation, and the discovery of genes associated with taste and touch .

Cantor founded several biotechnology companies, including Sequenom , which offered prenatal diagnostics from maternal blood and was sold to LabCorp for approximately $ 370 million in 2016 , SelectX Pharmaceuticals, DiThera and Retrotope. He was on the board of directors or scientific advisory boards of numerous other biotechnology companies. In 1997/98 he was Treasurer of the New England Complex Systems Institute .

In 1969 Cantor received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ) and in 1973 a Guggenheim grant , and in 1978 the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry . In 1981 he was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science , in 1988 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In 2013 Cantor was accepted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a private initiative that is not part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine .

Cantor is unmarried and has no children.

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  • Biophysical Chemistry, Part 1: The Conformation of Biological Macromecules , 1980 ISBN 0-7167-1042-0
  • Biophysical Chemistry, Part 2: The Behavior of Biological Macromolecules , 1980. ISBN 0-7167-1192-3
  • Biophysical Chemistry, Part 3: Techniques for the Study of Biological Structure and Function , 1980. ISBN 0-7167-1190-7
  • Genomics: The Science and Technology Behind the Human Genome Project , 1999 ISBN 978-0-471-59908-1

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles R. Cantor - Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In: med.upenn.edu. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ LabCorp to Acquire Sequenom for $ 371M - GEN. In: genengnews.com. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  3. ^ Charles R. Cantor Ph.D .: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg. In: bloomberg.com. May 30, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Charles R. Cantor. In: gf.org. Retrieved May 31, 2018 .
  5. ^ Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (PDF, 50kB); accessed on May 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  7. ^ Charles Cantor. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  8. ^ Cantor Named as National Academy of Inventors Charter Fellow. In: bu.edu. December 11, 2013, accessed May 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cantor, Charles R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cantor, Charles Robert; Cantor, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American molecular biologist and biotechnologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York