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Biographies

Susanne Wells, PhD

Director, Epithelial Carcinogenesis and Stem Cell Program

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-5986

Fax: 513-636-3549

Email: susanne.wells@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Squamous cell carcinoma; mechanisms by which the HPV oncogenes subvert the host cell machinery to promote abnormal cell growth and cancer; role of specific cellular HPV targets in viral replication and cellular transformation

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Biography

Susanne Wells graduated from the University of Konstanz, Germany, with a degree in Biology. She completed her PhD in Molecular Biology at the State University of Stony Brook, NY, and her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, MA. Dr. Wells moved to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2002 to study human papillomavirus infection and associated carcinogenesis.

Education and Training

BS: Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1992.

PhD: Molecular Genetics, State University of Stony Brook, NY, 1997.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Molecular Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Publications

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Grants

Role and regulation of the human DEK proto-oncogene. Principle Investigator. National Institutes of Health. 2006 - 2011.

Fanconi Anemia and HPV transformation. Principle Investigator. National Institutes of Health. 2010 - 2015. #2RO1 CA102357.

Fanconi Anemia as a Model for Susceptibility to Human Papillomavirus Infection. Principle Investigator. National Institutes of Health. 2011 - 2016. #1RO1 HL108102-01.