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SUMMARY:2 Billion years of shelterin and t-loops: from telomere protection
  to tumor suppression
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Titia De Lange\, Leon Hess Professor and Director\, Anders
 on Center for Cancer Research\, Rockefeller University\, USA\nA Lola and J
 ohn Grace Distinguished Lecture in Cancer Research\n\n\nDr. Titia de Lange
  received training in molecular biology and biochemistry at the University
  of Amsterdam. As an undergraduate\, she did research in Richard Flavell
 ’s lab at the MRC in Mill Hill\, UK. She was a graduate student in Piet 
 Borst’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Amste
 rdam and moved with Borst to the Dutch Cancer Center where she first devel
 oped an interest in telomeres. After receiving her PhD in 1985\, de Lange 
 joined Harold Varmus at UCSF for postdoctoral studies. With Varmus\, she i
 solated human telomeric DNA and was the first to show that human telomeres
  shorten during tumorigenesis. In 1990\, she moved to the Rockefeller to t
 ake a position as a University Fellow and was appointed as Assistant Profe
 ssor in 1991. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to Profe
 ssor in 1997. She currently is the Leon Hess Professor and the Director of
  the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at the Rockefeller University.\n\
 nShe is a member of EMBO\, the US National Academy of Science\, both Dutch
  Royal Academies\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the US Nati
 onal Academy of Medicine. She is an foreign member of the Royal Society of
  London and received honorary degrees from the University of Utrecht\, the
  University of Chicago\, and the University of Groningen.\n\nDe Lange’s 
 awards include the inaugural Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research in 2001\
 , the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Prize\, the Judd award 
 from MSKCC\, the AACR’s Charlotte Friend and G.H.A. Clowes Awards\, the 
 2011 Vilcek Prize\, the 2012 Vanderbilt Prize\, the 2012 Dr. Heineken Priz
 e for Biochemistry and Biophysics\, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Science
 s in 2013\, the 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award\, the 2018 Lewis 
 S. Rosenstiel Award\, and the 2024 Pezcoller AACR International Award.\n 
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