Serrine Lau

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
• Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Director, Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, Center for Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
• Professor, Bio5 Institute

EDUCATION:
• BS, University of Houston, 1974, Mathematics & Chemistry PhD, University of Michigan, 1980, Pharmacology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The focus of Dr Lau's research involves coupling the metabolic activation of chemicals to their target organ toxicity. There are three major ongoing areas of research in Dr Lau's laboratory: 1. Mechanism of hydroquinone mediated carcinogenicity, 2. Prostanoid mediated cytoprotection: Prostaglandins (PGs) are potent signaling molecules that can exert both cellular and systemic effects and 3. Mass spectrometric approaches to proteomics.

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