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Holz Coaches Grant Writers

By On November 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, The Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology at Yeshiva University, served as a grant-writing coach at the fourth Southeast Training Hub grant-writing training organized by The National Research Mentoring Network. The Network training met as part of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Translational Science Conference, October 28-29, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

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Holz Co-Authors Paper on Breast Cancer

By On November 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, The Doris and Ira Kukin Professor of Biology at Stern College for Women, co-authored a research paper with scientists from the Linköping University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden as well as with Dr. Anya Alayev ’03S, ’10E, clinical assistant professor […]

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Holz Delivers Keynote Address

By On October 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology at Yeshiva University, recently delivered a keynote address at the Resveratrol 2017 Regional Meeting in Mendoza, Argentina, which met from October 12-October 13, 2017.

In her presentation, titled “Modulation of cellular signaling pathways by resveratrol,” she spoke about the recently funded clinical trial […]

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Holz Receives Travel Award

By On January 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, professor of biology, has been awarded the 2017 Undergraduate Faculty Travel Award by the Education and Professional Development Committee of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to help defray travel costs for attending the society’s April annual meeting in Chicago to present her research.

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Holz and Stern Alumni Publish Articles in Oncogene, Clinical Cancer Research

By On November 9, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, the Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology and professor of biology at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published two articles in prestigious scientific journals with her former students and post-docs.

“mTORC1 directly phosphorylates and activates ER[alpha] upon estrogen stimulation” appears in the November 2, 2015 edition of Oncogene and […]

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Holz Featured in LAM Foundation Awareness Video

By On June 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva University, was featured in a video created by the LAM Foundation to raise awareness of Lymphangioleiomymomatosis, a rare lung disease that occurs almost exclusively in women in the prime of their lives. The foundation supports Holz’s research about the disease. She appears at 4:46.

 

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Holz Publishes Article in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

By On April 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology, recently published an article in  The American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. Titled “The combination of rapamycin and resveratrol causes apoptosis and reduces growth of TSC2-deficient xenograft tumors,” the study investigates a potential treatment for Lympangeioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and similar diseases. Her coauthors include recent Stern College […]

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Holz Publishes Article in Cell Cycle

By On December 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published an article in Cell Cycle. Titled “Resveratrol prevents rapamycin-induced upregulation of autophagy and selectively induces apoptosis in TSC2-deficient cells,” the article demonstrates how the combination of Rapamycin, an FDA-approved drug, with a natural agent, Resveratrol, is effecting […]

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Holz Receives $25,000 Pilot Award

By On March 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Marina Holz, assistant professor of biology at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, has been granted a one-year Pilot Award from the LAM Foundation to study a rare disease that most commonly strikes women of childbearing age and results in the destruction of the lungs. The $25,000 grant will enable Holz and her […]

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