Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson | |
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| Alma mater | Moscow State University Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine |
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| Fields | Medical genetics, translational genomics |
| Institutions | National Institutes of Health |
| Thesis | Strategies for identification of susceptibility genes in complex autoimmune diseases (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marta Alarcon-Riquelme |
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson [1] is a molecular medical geneticist who conducts genetic and functional analyses downstream of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for various human traits, including cancer, immune and infectious diseases. She is chief of the Laboratory of Translational Genomics (LTG) at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
[edit]Prokunina-Olsson received an M.Sc. in molecular genetics from Moscow State University.[2] She earned a Ph.D. in medical genetics from Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine in 2004.[2] Her dissertation was titled Strategies for identification of susceptibility genes in complex autoimmune diseases.[3] Marta Alarcon-Riquelme was her doctoral advisor and Juha Kere was an opponent of her dissertation.[3]
During 2005 to 2008, she was a visiting fellow with Francis Collins in the genome technology branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute.[2] Prokunina-Olsson joined the Laboratory of Translational Genomics (LTG) of the division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) as a research fellow in June 2008.[2] She became a tenure-track investigator in April 2010 and was awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientific tenure and promoted to senior investigator in December 2014.[2] She became acting chief of LTG in February 2018 and was appointed as chief in December 2018.[2] Prokunina-Olsson explores the connections between the genome-wide association studies (GWAS)-identified genetic susceptibility variants and molecular phenotypes of importance for cancer.[2] Some of her findings have resulted in translational and clinical applications.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "VIAF". Virtual International Authority File.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Ph.D., biographical sketch and research interests - NCI". dceg.cancer.gov. 1980-01-01. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
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- ^ a b Prokunina, Ludmila (2004). Strategies for identification of susceptibility genes in complex autoimmune diseases (Thesis). Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine. ISBN 91-554-5918-8. OCLC 186324215.
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- Living people
- 1967 births
- Moscow State University alumni
- Uppsala University alumni
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- Medical geneticists
- 21st-century Russian women scientists
- Russian geneticists
- Women geneticists
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- Expatriate academics in the United States
- Molecular geneticists
- Russian medical researchers
- Women medical researchers
- Cancer researchers
- 21st-century Russian biologists