10th Annual Robert F. Kallman Memorial Lectureship: "A Tale of Two 70s: HSP and Ku"

Dr. Li received her PhD from Stanford University in high energy nuclear physics in 1972. Between 1972 and 1980, she remained at Stanford to carry out research on pi-meson (pion) and hyperthermia cancer therapy. She was a faculty member at UCSF (1981-1990), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1991-2013), and Cornell University (1991-2013), respectively. She retired in April 2013, and was appointed Emeritus member at MSKCC. She pioneered functional studies of mammalian heat-shock protein 70, and elucidated the mechanistic basis of thermotolerance. Then, Dr. Li discovered the involvement of Ku70, a subunit of DNA-PK, in heat-shock protein regulation. Her laboratory generated knock-out mice deficient in each component of DNA-PK, and studied their functions in DNA repair, VDJ recombinati

Department:  Radiation Oncology

Contact: Sharon Clarke | 650.723.7311 | sclarke@stanford.edu

Presenter(s):

• Dr. Gloria C. Li Member Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettring Cancer Center