Beverly Mock

Beverly Mock
Mock in 1995
Alma mater	University of Maryland, College Park
Scientific career
Fields	Genetics
Institutions	National Cancer Institute

^[1] Beverly Anne Mock is an American geneticist who is a deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research.

Life

Mock obtained a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1983. ^[2] Her dissertation was titled, The population biology of Trypanosoma diemyctyli. ^[3] She continued her studies on the genetics of susceptibility to parasitic diseases in the department of immunology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. ^[4]

Since coming to the National Institutes of Health, she has focused her research on complex genetic traits associated with cancer initiation and progression in an effort to develop strategies for identifying and analyzing drug combinations to target susceptibility pathways. ^[4]

Mock is a deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research, deputy chief of the NCI laboratory of cancer biology and genetics, and head of the cancer genetics section. ^[4]

Selected works

• Mock, Beverly A.; Nacy, C. A. (December 1988). "Hormonal modulation of sex differences in resistance to Leishmania major systemic infections". Infection and Immunity . 56 (12): 3316–3319. doi:10.1128/iai.56.12.3316-3319.1988. ISSN   0019-9567. PMC   259743 . PMID   3182082.
• Hilbert, D M; Kopf, M; Mock, B A; Köhler, G; Rudikoff, S (July 1, 1995). "Interleukin 6 is essential for in vivo development of B lineage neoplasms". Journal of Experimental Medicine . 182 (1): 243–248. doi:10.1084/jem.182.1.243. PMC   2192088 . PMID   7790819.

References

1. "Beverly Mock, Ph.D. | Center for Cancer Research". ccr.cancer.gov. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
2. "Beverly A. Mock". University of Maryland, College Park . Archived from the original on 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
3. Mock, Beverly Anne (1983). The population biology of Trypanosoma diemyctyli (Ph.D. thesis). University of Maryland, College Park.
4. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : "Principal Investigators". NIH Intramural Research Program . Retrieved 2022-08-26.

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