Expertise

• Cancer Cell Biology
• Breast Cancer
• Molecular Genetics
• Cancer Genetics
• Transgenic Animals
• Control of Gene Expression - detection, measurement
• Angiogenesis and Cancer
• Metastasis
• Cloning and expression of exogenous genes
• Development Biology
• Various Biotechnology Applications

Experience

• The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, Regulatory Biology.
• Leukemia Society of America Fellow and Special Fellow (Postdoctoral Training)
• Assistant Research Biologist, University of Calif., San Diego, Cancer Center.
• Assistant Professor, UCSD Cancer Center
• Associate Professor, UCSD Cancer Center
• Sabbatical Leave University of Utah: Genetic manipulation of mouse
• Leader, Cancer Genetics Program
• Associate Director, UCSD Cancer Center,
• Pres. Professor of Medicine/Genetics, UCSD Cancer Center, Department of Medicine
• Nine Month Sabbatical Leave: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle: Mammary cell biology
• Official leave to National Cancer Institute, Special Consultant to the Director
• Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
• Program Director & Special Consultant, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Honors & Publications

• University of Utah, Dept of Human Genetics, with Mario Capecchi 1993
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Denise Galloway/Peggy Porter 2002
• More than 180 invited lectures in the United States (143), Canada (4), Chile (6), Argentina (3), Spain (7), Italy (5), England (4), Germany (3), Switzerland (2), Austria (3) The Netherlands (3), China (3)
• President, 6th International Congress on Amino Acids, Bonn, Germany 1999
• San Diego Padres "All Star" in Medical Science, June, 1999
• Clayton Foundation Investigator, 1986-present
• Woman of Accomplishment, Soroptimists International, 1997,1998
• Organizer and Chairwoman, FASEB Summer Conference on Amino Acid Transport, 1997.
• Leukemia Society of America Fellow and Special Fellow, 1979-1982
• National Research Service Award (Individual), 1983
• California Heart Association Predoctoral Fellow
• Sixty-two publications from 1980 to present - a complete list is available upon request.

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Gene Regulation, Department of Biology
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Leukemia Society of America Fellow (Postdoctoral Training)
• B.A., San Francisco State University
• University of Utah, Dept of Human Genetics, with Mario Capecchi 1993
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Denise Galloway / Peggy Porter 2002