Ed Harlow


Ed Harlow is an American molecular biologist.
Harlow received the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London.
Harlow is professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
He has been associate director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as well as research director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute.
From 2009-2011 he was Chief Scientific Officer at Constellation Pharmaceuticals.
Among Harlow's discoveries was the demonstration that the retinoblastoma protein interacts with viral transforming proteins, thereby linking tumor viruses with the cell cycle.
He is also the author, with David Lane, of "Using antibodies: a laboratory manual.".
Dr. Harlow has trained scientists in the field of molecular biology and oncology, including Nicholas Dyson, Jacqueline Lees, Joshua LaBaer, Matthew Meyerson, Li-Huei Tsai, and Marc Vidal.

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