Laufey Ámundadóttir
Laufey Thora Ámundadóttir | |
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Laufey Þóra Ámundadóttir | |
Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
Alma mater | Georgetown University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cell biology, cancer genetics |
Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
Doctoral advisor | Robert B. Dickson |
Laufey Thora Ámundadóttir (Icelandic spelling: Laufey Þóra Ámundadóttir; born 1962[1]) is an Icelandic cell biologist and geneticist who researches pancreatic cancer. She is a senior investigator in the laboratory of translational genomics at the National Cancer Institute. She was head of the division of cancer genetics at deCODE genetics from 1998 to 2007.
Life
[edit]Ámundadóttir received a Ph.D. in cell biology in 1995 from Georgetown University.[2] Her dissertation was titled The interaction of TGF [alpha] with C-MYC and NEU in mouse mammary and salivary gland tumorigenesis.[3] Robert B. Dickson was her doctoral advisor.[3] She conducted her postdoctoral training in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School.[2] She joined deCODE Genetics in 1998 as head of the division of cancer genetics, where she led genome-wide linkage and association efforts in various cancers.[2] Ámundadóttir joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2007 and became a tenure-track investigator in the laboratory of translational genomics (LTG) in 2008.[2] She was awarded scientific tenure by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and appointed senior investigator in 2017.[2] She leads genetic, genomic and molecular biology studies that collectively aim at better understanding inherited predisposition to pancreatic cancer, and the molecular mechanisms that underlie risk.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Laufey Þóra Ámundadóttir". Record of Icelanders´ Doctoral Theses. National and University Library of Iceland. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
- ^ a b c d e f "Laufey Amundadottir Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 1980-01-01. Retrieved 2022-10-26. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b Ámundadóttir, Laufey Thora (1995). The interaction of TGF [alpha] with C-MYC and NEU in mouse mammary and salivary gland tumorigenesis (Ph.D. thesis). Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. OCLC 36211087.
- Living people
- Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni
- 21st-century women scientists
- Icelandic women scientists
- Icelandic emigrants to the United States
- Expatriate academics in the United States
- National Institutes of Health people
- Women geneticists
- Medical geneticists
- Cancer researchers
- Women medical researchers
- 21st-century biologists
- Cell biologists
- Icelandic molecular biologists
- Women molecular biologists
- 21st-century American women civil servants
- 1962 births