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Roy Parker, Ph.D.

Roy  Parker

Roy 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


Research Abstract
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Control of mRNA Degradation and Translation in Eukaryotic Cells

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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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