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Roy Parker, Ph.D.

Roy Parker

Dr. Parker is also Regents' Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and the Arizona Cancer Center. 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
1994– Present
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
Awards
bullet icon MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health

Research Abstract
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Control of mRNA Degradation and Translation in Eukaryotic Cells

Related Links

AT HHMI

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Targeting mRNA for Destruction
(03.21.02)

ON THE WEB

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The Parker Lab
(arizona.edu)

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