Dr. Heike Laman

Biography

Professor Heike Laman received her BSc cum laude from the University of Miami, majoring in Microbiology and Immunology, with double minors in Chemistry and Biology, and earned a PhD and dual Master's degrees at Columbia University's Department of Microbiology and Immunology in New York City. Her research focused on transcriptional silencing and heterochromatin assembly in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, under the guidance of Professor David Shore. She was awarded a Fellowship from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Francis Crick Institute) and conducted post-doctoral research in London. Her studies on KSHV-encoded cyclins contributed to the understanding of cell cycle regulation. Dr. Laman's discovery of the critical role ubiquitin ligases play in regulating G1 phase kinases in KSHV-driven malignancies led to funding from the Association of International Cancer Research. In 2005, she established an independent research group at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Pathology, where she serves as Professor of Cellular Molecular Biology and as Head of the Department. Dr. Laman is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and is the Director of Studies for Pathology Genetics and Postgraduate Admissions Tutor.

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