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John McDonald, PhD
Georgia Cancer Coalition
Cancer Research Fund Awardee

Chief Scientific Officer
Ovarian Cancer Institute
and
Professor and Chair
School of Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
310 Ferst Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0230

Email Address:    john.mcdonald@biology.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-0519
Fax: 404-894-0519

 

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Educational Background:

  • University of California, Davis, CA  •   PhD, 1977

Research Interests:

  • Genetic basis of cancer – role of retrotransposons in epigenetic changes associated with ovarian cancer development, new diagnostics and therapeutics for ovarian cancer
  • Role of retroviral-like transposable elements as a source of mutational change and their relevance to the genome structure and function
  • Mechanisms by which retrotransposons evolve new cis-regulatory sequences, the significance these changes may have for the maintenance and spread of retroviral elements in natural populations, and the impact these and other retrotransposon sequences have on gene and genome evolution

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