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Professor

Don W. Cleveland

University of California, San Diego
Molecular biologist; Biochemist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Elected
2006
Professor of Medicine, Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Discovered mechanisms that maintain faithful chromosome inheritance and cell cycle control during normal cellular division in mammals. Discovered the principles of neuronal cell growth and the mechanisms of selective neuronal death in human neurodegenerative disease, especially the pathway underlying paralysis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
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