Nancy Carrasco
Nancy Carrasco is a professor in, and the chair of, the Department of
Molecular Physiology and
Biophysics at
Vanderbilt University. Carrasco has conducted research in the fields of
biochemistry, biophysics, molecular physiology, molecular
endocrinology, and cancer. She cloned the
sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), a breakthrough in thyroid
pathophysiology with ramifications for many other fields, including structure/function of transport proteins, molecular endocrinology,
gene transfer studies,
cancer, and
public health (she has served on the
Environmental Protection Agency's science advisory board).
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