Lawrence A. Loeb | |
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 Loeb in 2009 | |
| Born | December 25, 1936 Poughkeepsie, New York, United States |
| Alma mater | City College of New York (BS , 1957) Bellevue Hospital Medical College (MD, 1961) University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1967) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genomics Genetics Cancer DNA sequencing |
| Institutions | Institute for Cancer Research University of Washington |
Lawrence A. "Larry" Loeb is an American cancer researcher and genome scientist. He is a professor of pathology and biochemistry at the University of Washington. Loeb is best known for his work on the fidelity of DNA polymerase, and his proposal of the mutator phenotype hypothesis in cancers.