Prof. Jerry Shay
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Director, Cancer Biology
Department of Cell Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, USA

Professor Shay is a very high scientist caliber of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. A native of Dallas, Texas , he received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas in Austin, and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. This was followed by postdoctoral research training with Keith Porter at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1975, he joined the Faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Prof. Shay's output in the literature is prodigious, with over 200 scientific articles published in refereed journals, over 50 book chapters written and more than 10 books in his field. He was recently identified by the Institute for Scientific Research as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

Prof. Shay is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals (For example: Cancer Research, J. Clin. Path., J. Nat. Cancer Inst., J. Antiaging Res., and Exp. Gerontology, …etc.) and on the Editorial Academy of the Int. J. Molecular Med. and the Int. J. Oncology. He assists on the American Federation of Aging Research National Committee and is the Chairman of the Scientific Review Committee for the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Geron Corporation (a biotechnology company in California that focuses on aging and cancer research) and the Executive Committee of Southwestern/M.D. Anderson Lung Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence. Dr. Shay has served as a panel member of the NIH Mammalian Genetics Study Section, the National Executive Council of the Tissue Culture Association, and he was recently elected for a four year term on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Differentiation.
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