Karen Vousden

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Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
Garscube Estate
Switchback Road
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 1BD
United Kingdom

Email: k.vousden@beatson.gla.ac.uk
Tel: 0141 330 3979 (Laraine)
Web: Lab website

About Karen Vousden

Professor Karen Vousden’s world-leading research focuses on a protein called p53 - a key player in the body's defences against cancer. Her team is finding new ways to treat the disease by harnessing the power of this crucial protein in cancer cells. Professor Vousden is Director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, where she leads the Tumour Suppression Group.

Karen Vousden other research projects

Funding period: 01 December 2008 to 30 November 2013

Recent publications


RASSRA elicits apoptosis through an MST2 pathway directing proapoptotic transcription by the P73 tumor suppressor protein

Mol Cell.2007;27 :962-975

A p53-derived apoptotic peptide derepresses p73 to cause tumor regression in vivo

J Clin Invest.2007;117 :1008-1018