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Susan Lees-Miller is a professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, specializing in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She obtained her BSc and PhD from the University College of Wales, Swansea, before completing post-doctoral training at the University of Alberta and Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Joining the University of Calgary in 1992 as an Assistant Professor, she moved to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2003. Dr. Lees-Miller has over 150 publications, with a significant citation count and an h-index of 89. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of DNA double strand break repair and aims to understand how cells detect and repair DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation and chemotherapeutic drugs, particularly the roles of DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) and Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated (ATM) in cellular responses to DNA damage. Her lab investigates the mechanisms of non-homologous end joining, a major DNA repair pathway, and their implications in cancer treatment. Recent contributions include collaborations with researchers from Northwestern University using cryo-electron microscopy to study NHEJ complexes. Dr. Lees-Miller is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received multiple awards for her contributions to cancer research.
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