7 years ago
Limas named 2018-19 Gilliam Fellow by HHMI
Juanita Limas will receive $50,000 to support her biomedical research in the Cook lab.
Tag: Cook
7 years ago
Jean Cook, Ph.D. Fundamentals of Cell Proliferation Control
Jean Cook, PhD leads a team of dynamic researchers in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her group explores unique aspects of basic cell proliferation control.
7 years ago
UNC Scientists Discover Proteins Keeping Stem Cells in their Undifferentiated State
The lab of Jean Cook, PhD, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, found how a chain of proteins called an MCM complex could enable the fast cell-division that makes some forms of cancer so dangerous. The study first author Jacob Matson, a PhD candidate in the Cook lab performed most of the experiments.