Nancy Jenkins

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Who is Nancy Jenkins?

Dr. Jenkins received her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from Indiana University in 1977. Following post-doctoral training at the Dana Farber Cancer Centre at Harvard Medical School, she moved to the Jackson Laboratory as an Associate Staff Scientist in 1980. In 1985, she took up the position of Head of the Section of Molecular Genetics of Development at the NCI at Frederick (NCI-Frederick. She and her husband, Neal Copeland Ph.D., spent the next 20 years at NCI-Frederick, making their name using mouse genetics to better define the genes and signalling pathways responsible for cancer.

Dr. Jenkins has served on numerous scientific advisory boards, including those of the Institute of Molecular Bioscience of the University of Queensland and the McLaughlin Research Institute. She also is a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals such as Mammalian Genome and Microbial and Comparative Genomics, and has been an Associate Editor for top journals Genetics and Genomics. In addition, she is a member of American Genetic Association and the Genetics Society of America, and lectures regularly at the International Mouse Genome Conference, as well as at conferences held by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

After more than 30 years of research work in the US, Dr. Jenkins moved to A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in 2006, along with Dr. Copeland. The pair was instrumental in setting up IMCB's Cancer Genetics laboratory, and has seen promising results in their research on colon cancer. Since 2007, she has been Deputy Director of the Cancer Genetics division at IMCB, and has been helping to chart the direction of basic cancer research there.

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on July 23, 2013

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