Karen Beemon
American molecular biologist
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Karen Beemon's Degrees
- PhD Molecular Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Beemon is an American molecular biologist and professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University known for her research on RNA viruses and viral oncogenesis. Career Beemon got her B.S. in 1969 from the University of Michigan, and then her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she worked with Peter Duesberg in collaboration with Peter Vogt. As a graduate student, Beemon determined the size of retroviral genomes which led to the characterization of the Src oncogene of Rous sarcoma virus, the first tyrosine kinase, during her postdoctoral tenure with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. The discovery of tyrosine kinase and its role in oncogenesis had far-reaching impact on the treatment of cancer, as it led to the development and widespread use of protein kinase inhibitors for treating cancer and inflammation.
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