1. Roger Brent was born on December 28,1955 and is an American biologist known for his work on gene regulation and systems biology.
11 Facts About Roger Brent
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Roger Brent is Full Member in the Division of Basic Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an Affiliate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.
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Roger Brent performed PhD and postdoctoral work in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University in the laboratory of Mark Ptashne.
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In 1985, Roger Brent moved to the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.
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Roger Brent initiated his lab's studies on cell signal control and cell-to-cell variation there.
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Roger Brent is a Professor of Basic Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and an Affiliate Professor of Genome Sciences and Bioengineering at the University of Washington.
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Roger Brent's work pursues two main questions: how cell signaling systems control their signals and the information those transmit and the origins and phenotypic consequences of cell-to-cell variation in signaling and subsequent responses.
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In 1987, Roger Brent help found, and continues to contribute to, Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, a "how to clone it manual" which started the Current Protocols journals.
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Roger Brent has been a scholar of The Pew Charitable Trusts and a senior scholar of the Ellison Medical Foundation.
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Dr Roger Brent is the inventor on 16 additional US patents and four pending US patents.
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In 2006, Brent married biologist and 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate Linda B Buck.