Zena Werb

Zena Werb
Born(1945-03-24)March 24, 1945
KZ Bergen-Belsen
Died16 June 2020(2020-06-16) (aged 75)
San Francisco, California, United States
Education
Known forStudy of the extracellular matrix
AwardsE.B. Wilson Medal, 2007
Scientific career
FieldsCell biology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
Thesis Dynamics of macrophage membrane cholesterol  (1971)
Doctoral advisorZanvil Cohn
Websitewerblab.ucsf.edu

Zena Werb (24 March 1945 – 16 June 2020) was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. 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.[1][2] 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.[3][4]

  1. ^ "About Cancer, Immunity, and Microenvironment". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Zena Werb, Ph.D." University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Research". Werb Lab. University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  4. ^ Littlepage, Laurie E.; Ewald, Andrew J.; Alexander, Caroline; Casbon, Amy-Jo; Lu, Pengfei; Kessenbrock, Kai; Provot, Sylvain; Phillips, Joanna J.; Kouros-Mehr, Hosein; Chan, Matilda; Welm, Bryan (2020-08-10). "Zena Werb (1945–2020)". Developmental Cell. 54 (3): 299–301. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2020.07.012. ISSN 1534-5807.