Saba Valadkhan

Saba Valadkhan
Alma materColumbia University
Scientific career
InstitutionsCase Western Reserve University
ThesisCatalytic and folding properties of protein-free spliceosomal snRNSs (2003)

Saba Valadkhan (Persian: صبا ولدخان) is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] In 2005, she was awarded the GE / Science Young Scientist Award for her breakthrough in understanding the mechanism of spliceosomes - "akin to finding the Holy Grail of the splicing catalysis field" [2] - a critical area of research, given that "20 percent or 30 percent of all human genetic diseases are caused by mistakes that the spliceosome makes".[3]

  1. ^ "Saba Valadkhan". Case Comprehensive Cancer Center | School of Medicine | Case Western Reserve University. 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  2. ^ "Saba Valadkhan of Case Western Reserve University Wins Young Scientist Award". www.payvand.com.
  3. ^ "News". aaas.org.