Harold L. Moses

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Harold L. Moses is a pathologist and cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , Tennessee .

Moses is considered an expert in the field of growth factors and tumor suppressors . He is primarily concerned with the role of TGF-β in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells . Among other things, he was able to show that the loss of the TGF-β signaling pathway in certain fibroblasts favors the development of cancer in neighboring epithelia .

Moses received an undergraduate degree from Berea College in Berea , Kentucky , in 1958 and an MD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1962 , with a medical degree. Here he also completed his specialist training in pathology . He was a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland before serving on the faculty at Vanderbilt University for five years. He then spent twelve years - from 1979 to 1985 as Chair of Cell Biology - at Mayo Medical School in Rochester , Minnesota . Since 1985, Moses was back in the same position at Vanderbilt University. Since 1993 he has held a professorship for oncology there (additionally until 2000) . From 1993 to 2005 he was the founding director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center . He has been Professor of Molecular Oncology since 2005 and Managing Director of the Department of Cancer Biology since 2012.

In 1991/92 Moses was President of the American Association for Cancer Research , which presented him with its AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research in 2013 . He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine since 2003 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2017

At Vanderbilt University he has been awarded a Harold L. Moses Chair in Cancer Research in his honor , the current position holder (as of 2017) is Yu Shyr .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidents of the AACR. In: aacr.org. Accessed December 30, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. In: aacr.org. Accessed December 30, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ AACR Recognizes Dr. Harold L. Moses With the 10th Annual Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. In: newswise.com. April 7, 2013, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Moses, Harold. In: aaas.org. November 30, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  5. ^ Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. In: faculty.mc.vanderbilt.edu. Accessed December 30, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Moses, Harold L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moses, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pathologist and cancer researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century