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Zena Werb (born on 24. March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen , died on 16th June 2020 in San Francisco ) was a Canadian - American cell biologist and cancer researcher at the University of California, San Francisco .
Life
Zena Werb was born to Polish-Jewish parents in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her family first emigrated to Italy , then to Canada. Werb grew up in the countryside in southern Ontario .
Werb earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1971 from Zanvil A. Cohn at Rockefeller University. in cell biology . From 1971 to 1973 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with John T. Dingle at the Strangeways Research Laboratory at the University of Cambridge . In 1975/76 she briefly served on the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School .
In 1976 she got a job at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF), initially as Assistant Adjunct Professor of Radiobiology . At the USCF, she was most recently Professor of Anatomy and Deputy Head of the Department of Anatomy. From 1995 she was also a member of the teaching staff at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .
She was visiting professor at the University of Oxford in 1985/86, at the Curie Institute in 1998 and at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry since 2006 .
Zena Werb was unmarried and had no children. She died in June 2020 at the age of 75.
Act
Adv is known for her work on proteolysis in the extracellular matrix and the importance of metalloproteinases in the implantation of embryos in the development of the female breast and bone tissue and the angiogenesis . She contributed significantly to the understanding of the role of matrix metalloproteases in the biology of stem cells and in the course of cancer .
According to Google Scholar, advertising has an h-index of 168, and according to the Scopus database it is 142 (as of May 2020).
Awards (selection)
- 1985 Guggenheim scholarship
- 1992 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1996 FASEB Excellence in Science Award
- 2002 member of the Institute of Medicine
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen
- 2003 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2007 EB Wilson Medal
- 2005 President of the American Society for Cell Biology
- 2010 member of the National Academy of Sciences
literature
- Fiona M. Watt : Zena advertising. In: Journal of Cell Science. 117, 2004, p. 803, doi: 10.1242 / jcs.01031 .
- Nancy Boudreau and Mina Bissell: Zena Werb (1945–2020). In: Science . Volume 369, No. 6507, 2020, p. 1059, doi: 10.1126 / science.abe0952 .
Web links
- Advertising lab and resume ( Microsoft Word document, 47 kB, as of 2010) at the University of California, San Francisco
- Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Zena Werb at academictree.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zena Werb Tuesday June 16 2020. In: Necrocanada.com. June 18, 2020, accessed on June 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Zena advertising. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , February 2015, accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ^ Zena advertising. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ^ Advertisement, Zena. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ^ Zena advertising. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ EB Wilson Medal. In: ascb.org. American Society for Cell Biology , accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ^ ASCB Presidents. In: ascb.org. American Society for Cell Biology , accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ^ Zena advertising. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed May 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werb, Zena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cell biologist and cancer researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2020 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |