Maria Jasin | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) Florida Atlantic University (BSc) |
| Known for | Research of homologous recombination |
| Awards | Shaw Prize in Life science and medicine Mendel Lectures |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental biology |
| Institutions | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Cornell University Stanford University University of Zurich |
| Thesis | Gene deletions and point mutations which define functional domains in alanine tRNA synthetase (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Schimmel[1] |
Maria Jasin (born 1956) is a developmental biologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is known for studying homologous recombination, a method in which double-strand breaks in DNA strands are repaired, and for discovering the role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in cancers.