Elizabeth Conner, Ph.D. - Laboratory Manager

Dr. Conner received her B.A. degree in biology from Western Maryland College and her Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Maryland Medical School where she studied biochemical mechanisms of cell injury from toxic metals and the regulatory roles of high affinity metal binding proteins in mediating cell injury. She began her career at NIH in 1993 as a post doctoral fellow, focusing first on gene amplification as an indicator of genomic instability. Later, she became interested in the role of growth factor signaling in liver tumor development and generated a transgenic mouse model overexpressing E2F1 and c-myc in the liver. From 2001 Dr. Conner has served as the laboratory manager and continues her research on the molecular pathogenesis of human liver cancer using transgenic and knockout mouse models.