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Carrasco, Nancy |
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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
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Physiology and Pharmacology |
 Election Citation
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Carrasco's scientific contributions to the fields of transport across biological membranes, molecular endocrinology (emphasis on the thyroid gland), cancer, and public health, among many others, are superb and exceptional. Her basic research is pristine and rigorous, and the translational offshoots are truly exciting and have great potential for medicine. |
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Research Interests
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Nancy Carrasco's main area of interest is transport across biological membranes, particularly by the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), the key plasma membrane protein that mediates active iodide uptake in the thyroid. Carrasco's group cloned NIS and has made great strides in characterizing it at the molecular level. NIS is at the center of the treatment for thyroid cancer based on administering radioiodide post-thyroidectomy, the most effective targeted internal radiation cancer therapy ever devise |
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