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Dr. Carol Cass

Affiliation

University of Alberta

Academy or College

Academy of Science

Year Elected

2002

Areas of Interest

Nucleoside biology, nucleoside transporters, nucleoside therapeutics, cancer chemotherapy, membrane biochemistry

Dr. Cass is internationally recognized for her research on membrane transport of nucleosides and nucleoside drugs. Her important early studies on nucleoside transport in human erythrocytes laid the foundation for the field and her subsequent studies of nucleoside transport deficiencies established that functional membrane transporters are essential for manifestation of cytotoxicity of many nucleoside drugs.