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Dr. Nancy Maizels's research builds on genomic analysis to learn how formation of G4 DNA promotes instability of G-rich regions and cancer; and how conserved repair factors maintain these regions. Dr. Maizels is also the Director of the Molecular Medicine Training Program at the University of Washington, a program designed to train Ph.D. students in basic biomedical sciences to solve problems relevant to human disease. The UW MMTP is one of 13 such programs in the US funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Maizels was an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and she continued at Harvard as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows. She was a Professor in the Departments of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine before joining the faculty of the University of Washington in 2000. | 