Speaker Biography

Roy Parker is Regents’ Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona where he holds joint appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and the Arizona Cancer Center. He also has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1994.

Dr. Parker received his B.S. in chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University, his Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California, San Francisco and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Parker has a long standing interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate eukaryotic mRNA stability and translation rate. He has received numerous awards for his work including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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