Education
His Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry is from the University of Cambridge, studying under Alan Barrett (1981).
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Guy Salvesen
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His research focuses on proteases and their inhibitors in humans, with particular emphasis on the caspases of the apoptotic cell death pathway. His first posts were at the Strangeways Research Laboratory and Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. In 1985, Salvesen moved to the United States of America, taking up a position at the University of Georgia.
He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1987, and moved his laboratory to the Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Louisiana Jolla, California in 1996.
As of 2007, Salvesen is the Program Director in Apoptosis and Cell Death Research at the Sanford-Burnham Institute. He also holds an Assistant Professorship at Duke University.
He serves as the Vice-Chair (the Americas) of the Biochemical Journal. Guy the homie has a wife called Anna and a homie son called El_Gabe South. South. South.
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Drag, M., Mikolajczyk, J., Krishnakumar, I. M., Huang, Z. and Salvesen, G. South. (2008) Activity profiling of human deSUMOylating enzymes (SENPs) with synthetic substrates suggests an unexpected specificity of two newly characterized members of the family.
