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Nancy Carrasco is a professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. and Master's degrees in Biochemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, followed by postdoctoral training at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology. In 1987, she joined the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and moved to Yale in 2011. Dr. Carrasco's research focuses on the Na+/I- symporter (NIS), a crucial protein involved in active iodide transport in the thyroid and lactating breast tissues, encompassing a range of biochemical, biophysical, and physiological investigations. She has received numerous awards including the Pew Award in Biomedical Sciences and the Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award from the American Thyroid Association. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, Dr. Carrasco has been actively involved in professional organizations such as the American Thyroid Association and the Endocrine Society, and serves on peer review groups for the National Institutes of Health.
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