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Roeland Nusse is the Virginia Daniel K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he received his PhD from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the University of Amsterdam in 1980. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Francisco, working under Dr. Harold Varmus. Since joining Stanford in 1990, he has led the Department of Developmental Biology and has been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research focuses on the Wnt signaling pathway, which is crucial for the growth and development of animal tissues and has implications in cancer and stem cell biology. Nusse's contributions to the field have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Canada Gairdner International Award, while also being elected as a member of several national and international scientific academies. His lab investigates how various cell types generated from stem cells maintain tissue integrity and the signals that regulate this balance, particularly in the context of injury and cancer.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Joined as a faculty member and has served as chair of the Department of Developmental Biology.
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