Prof. Guy Salvesen The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, USA

Guy Salvesen earned his PhD in biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1980. He is an internationally recognized expert in the biochemistry of proteolytic signalling, with a special emphasis on programmed cell death. Dr. Salvesen is Director of the Program on Apoptosis and Cell Death Research and Director of Scientific Training... read moreat the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Salvesen holds an adjunct appointment as Professor of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are primarily focused on the development of technologies to aid in the understanding of how cancer and degenerative diseases arise from previously healthy cells.