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Zena Werb
German-born cell biologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1945 to 2020 · aged 75
Zena Werb was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco.
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She was also the co-leader of the Cancer, Immunity, and Microenvironment Program at the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Sabre-Sandler Asthma Basic Research Center at UCSF. Her research focused on features of the microenvironment surrounding cells, with particular interest in the extracellular matrix and the role of its protease enzymes in cell signaling.
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