Viji Mythily Draviam is a Professor of Quantitative Cell and Molecular Biology at Queen Mary University of London.
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Viji Draviam's research considers the molecular level mechanisms that underpin cell division.
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Whilst working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Draviam identified a process that caused the formation of tumours.
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Viji Draviam earned a master's degree at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.
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Viji Draviam moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate studies, where she joined the University of Cambridge.
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Viji Draviam completed her PhD on B-type cyclins in the laboratory of Jonathon Pines at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Viji Draviam moved to the United States for her postdoctoral research, spending in time in both the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Whilst at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Viji Draviam discovered one of the processes that caused tumours to form.
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Viji Draviam showed that checkpoint proteins have to 'sense' that both the adenomatous polyposis coli and EB1 proteins to support normal cell division.
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Viji Draviam returned to the United Kingdom in 2008, where she was made a Cancer Research UK Fellow and established her own research group.
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Viji Draviam moved to Queen Mary University of London in 2015 and was promoted to Professor of Cell And Molecular Biology in 2019.
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The Viji Draviam laboratory investigate sub-cellular movements that are involved with maintaining chromosome number.
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Viji Draviam serves as an editor of the scientific journal PeerJ.