This week there will be a
Special Seminar held by Centre for Cancer Research on Tuesday 26
June at 9:30-10:30 am in Seminar Rooms 1 & 2,
Level 2, TRF.
The speaker will be David M. Virshup, MD
Professor and Director, Program in
Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; Professor
of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Dr David M. Virshup, MD, is the inaugural Director of the
Program in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
in Singapore, and a tenured Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University in North
Carolina, USA. His research focuses on signal transduction via protein
phosphorylation, with a special interest in Wnt signalling and circadian
rhythms.
Dr Virshup received his B.A. magna cum laude in
Chemistry from Beloit College in 1977 and his medical degree from Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1981. He completed his clinical
training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and research training
all at Johns Hopkins.
From 1990 until 2007, Dr Virshup was at the University of Utah.
In 2007, he joined the newly-established Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in
Singapore.
Dr Virshup is a member of the American Society of Pharmacology
and Experimental Therapeutics, the American Society of Clinical Investigation,
the Association of American Physicians, and a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, He has been on the Editorial Board
for Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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