Michael B. Kastan | |
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| Occupations | Professor of pharmacology and cancer biology |
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| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Institutions | Duke University |
Michael B. Kastan is the executive director of the Duke Cancer Institute and professor of pharmacology and cancer biology.
Kastan received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MD and PhD from Washington University School of Medicine in 1984. [1] He did a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. [2]
In 2004,he became director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, [3] where he worked until moving to Duke to lead the Duke Cancer Institute in 2011. He was the editor-in-chief of Molecular Cancer Research from 2002 to 2012. [4]
Kastan's research is focused on cell signaling and DNA damage and repair mechanisms in cancer. [4]
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