The Role of Iron and Reactive Oxygen Species in Cell Death
By Scott Dixon
Principal Investigator, Stanford University
As a graduate of Laurentian University (BSc, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2000) and the University of Toronto (PhD, Molecular and Medical Genetics, 2007), Scott Dixon is now part of Stanford University's Department of Biology.
Dr. Dixon's laboratory is dedicated to studying and understanding cell death. His research focuses on the role of iron and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in this process. In a recent publication in Nature Chemical Biology, Dr. Dixon and his team showed that iron is required for ROS-induced cell death.
This finding has important implications for understanding and treating diseases that involve cell death, such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
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