Nationality Dutch Known for ShelterinTelomeres | Name Titia Lange Role Professor | |
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Notable awards Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research (2001)Heineken Prize (2012)Canada Gairdner International Award (2014) Similar People Peter Brabeck‑Letmathe, Paul Bulcke, Henri Nestle | ||
Dr titia de lange
Titia de Lange (born 11 November 1955, in Rotterdam) is an American Cancer Society professor and head of Laboratory Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University.
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De Lange obtained her Masters on "Chromatin structure of the human ß-globin gene locus" at the University of Amsterdam in 1981, and subsequently her PhD at the same institution in 1985 with Piet Borst on surface antigen genes in trypanosomes. In 1985 she joined Harold Varmus lab at the University of California, San Francisco and since 1990 she has had a faculty position at the Rockefeller University. In 2011, de Lange received the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science. In 2013 she won a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, worth $3 million, for her research on telomeres.
In 2000 she became correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.