Krystyna Frenkel

Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, United States of America

EDUCATION:

Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
1964 M.S. (Organic Chemistry) School of Chemistry

New York University, New York, NY
1974 Ph.D. (Biochemistry) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING:

1974-1976 NIH Research Fellow (Chemical Carcinogenesis), Institute of Cancer Research, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

1970- American Chemical Society
1981- American Association for Cancer Research
1984- New York Academy of Sciences
1986- International Society for Free Radical Research
1988- Oxygen Society (currently Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine)
1992-1993 American Association for Cancer Research Clowes Award Subcommittee
1994- International Society for Preventive Oncology

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:

· Mechanisms of DNA modification by chemical and physical carcinogens, initiating and promoting agents
· Genetic effects of DNA modification
· Role of oxidant formation and oxidative DNA damage in diseases
· Role of environmental and occupational pollutants in genetic damage
· Involvement of chronic inflammation in cancer and other diseases
· Mechanisms of cell transformation and a role of signal transduction
· Breast and skin cancers
· Prevention
· Biomarkers of oxidative stress and cancer in humans

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Oncology > Breast Diseases: Benign & Malignant (since 01 October 2007)