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Roy Parker, Ph.D.

Roy Parker

Dr. Parker is also Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Cech-Leinwand Endowed Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. degree in genetics from the University of California, San Francisco, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.



RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:

Roy Parker is interested in the biogenesis, function, and degradation of eukaryotic mRNA and how cells regulate different steps in this process to modulate gene expression.

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Photo: Margaret Hartshorn, Biomedical Communications, Arizona Health Sciences Center

HHMI INVESTIGATOR
2012– Present
University of Colorado at Boulder

1994–2012
University of Arizona

Education
bullet icon B.S., chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
bullet icon Ph.D., genetics, University of California, San Francisco
Member
bullet icon The RNA Society
bullet icon American Academy of Arts and Sciences
bullet icon National Academy of Sciences
Awards
bullet icon MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health

Research Abstract
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Control of mRNA Degradation and Translation in Eukaryotic Cells

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Targeting mRNA for Destruction
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