2021 Honoree
Luisa Escobar Hoyos, MSc., PhD’15
PhD Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine
- First to establish that nuclear keratin 17 (K17) drives cell division in cancer
- Research revealed that mutations in p53 alter RNA splicing in cancer
- Recipient of the 2020 Faculty Excellence and Diversity Award of Yale University
- 2021 Recipient of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
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