Maria Jasin
Maria Jasin (* 1956 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American molecular biologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University .
Jasin earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Florida Atlantic University and a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich and Stanford University before moving to the MSKCC in 1990 and becoming a professor at Cornell University.
Maria Jasin is known for her work on double-strand breaks in DNA and the repair mechanisms that paved the way for genome editing . She was able to contribute significantly to the elucidation of homologous recombination and the role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in it.
In 2015 Jasin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , in 2017 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2019 she was awarded the Shaw Prize for Life Sciences and Medicine.
literature
- Lara Szewczak: A Conversation with Maria Jasin. In: Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 82, 2018, p. 400, doi : 10.1101 / sqb.2017.82.035345 .
Web links
- The Maria Jasin Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (mskcc.org)
- Maria Jasin, PhD at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (bcrf.org)
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Jasin at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); accessed on May 21, 2019.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter J. (PDF; 354 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
- ^ Maria Jasin at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); accessed on May 21, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jasin, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American molecular biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit , Michigan |