Kathleen Green
Dr. Green is the Joseph L. Mayberry Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University and Professor in the Department of Dermatology. She serves as Associate Director for Basic Sciences in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. She received her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Washington University in St. Louis and carried out Postdoctoral Training in the Department of Cell Biology at Northwestern University, where she joined the faculty in 1987.
Dr. Green's research focuses on how cadherins and their associated proteins direct tissue morphogenesis and differentiation. Her pioneering work on intercellular junctions called desmosomes contributed to the discovery of their involvement in diseases of the skin and heart. The lab is currently determining how keratinocyte cadherins that appeared late in evolution integrate mechanical and chemical signaling pathways to direct formation of complex tissues through both cell autonomous and paracrine signaling. Dr. Green served as Secretary for the American Society for Cell Biology and is past President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology. An Honorary Member of the Society for Investigative Dermatology and European Society for Dermatological Research, Dr. Green was elected into the German National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
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