Positions
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
Sept. 2009 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern
2005 – 2009 Instructor, Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern
2002 – 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md. Supervisor: Gordon L. Hager, Ph.D.
1996 – 2002 Graduate Student Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Supervisor/mentor: Mark Danielsen, Ph.D.
1994 – 1996 Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Supervisor: Mark Danielsen, Ph.D.
1993 – 1994 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Newton, Mass. Supervisor: Mary Roberts, Ph.D.
Education
Georgetown University (2002)
Research Interests
- Deregulation of transcriptional pathways in cancer
- Drug discovery
- Epigenetic control of gene expression
- Novel therapeutics for gene expression disorders including cancer
- The role of Jumonji histone demethylases in cancer
- Transcriptional regulation by nuclear receptors
Honors/Awards
- Abstract Award - International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (2007)
- NIH Technology Transfer Award (2004)
- NIH FARE Research Excellence Award (2003)
- Keystone Symposia Travel awards (2002)
- Phi Beta Kappa (1994 – present)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- Co-founder and Member of the Nuclear Receptor Resource Project, 1995 – present
- Member of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2005 – present
- Member of the American Society for Cell Biology, 2004 – present
- Member of the Endocrine Society, 1997 – present
- NIH Task Force on Recruitment and Retention of Women, Subcommittee co-chair, 2003 – present