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Enrique Rozengurt is a distinguished professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on digestive diseases and gastroenterology. He serves as the Director of the CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center and holds the Ronald Hirshberg Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research. With his pioneering research in cell growth regulation, Rozengurt has identified proteins involved in growth-promoting activities and elucidated the intracellular pathways that stimulate cell multiplication. His prolific work includes around 400 seminal scientific papers that highlight the stimulation of cultured cells and the mechanisms of cell motility and invasiveness in cancer. He has significantly contributed to understanding biologically active peptides as potent cellular growth factors, particularly in human cancer cells. His research on small cell lung cancer and pancreatic cancer cells aims to explore novel antagonists to block the effects of biologically active peptides, leading to potential new treatments for cancers resistant to current therapies.
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA, USA
Teaching and conducting research in digestive diseases and gastroenterology.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.