Prof. Yuri Lazebnik Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

Yuri Lazebnik is a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He received his PhD from St. Petersburg State University in 1986. His laboratory seeks to understand how cells become cancerous, how cancer cells evolve and how they can be killed selectively. Dr. Lazebnik is an internationally recognized expert on mechanisms... read moreof cell death and the role of caspases in this process. His research on apoptosis has been motivated by his interest in the origin, fate and viability of cancer cells.