Autor: Ellen Fanning

Lynne S Cox has worked in the field of eukaryotic DNA replication since 1987. Within three years of gaining her Ph D, she was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh personal research fellowship to conduct her own independent research. During this time, she also ran a CRC-funded project examining replication control through an essential protein PCNA. She then took up a Fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford and a University Lectureship in the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford. As well as studying human DNA replication in relation to cancer and senescence, her laboratory»s work on malarial parasite replication factors more than doubled the number of characterized factors, with a view to developing inhibitors of malarial replication. Her most recent work has focussed on loss of replicative capacity during normal and accelerated human ageing, and she has recently secured funding to establish a Drosophila model for characterization of replicative senescence.