The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has named Elizabeth Finn, Ph.D., as an assistant member in the Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology Research Program. She joins OMRF from the National Cancer Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship.
Finn will study the way DNA is folded and condensed to fit inside the nucleus. Her team will use an innovative imaging process to observe variations in DNA organization between tissue types and in individual cells.
“We’re excited to add Dr. Finn’s new techniques and abilities to OMRF,” said Gary Gorbsky, Ph.D., who heads the foundation’s Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology Research Program and holds the W.H. and Betty Phelps Chair in Developmental Biology. “This work will refine our understanding of the way cells talk to each other.”
Finn earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Chicago and a doctorate of genetics from Stanford University.
