Alexandra C. Newton | |
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Born | Cape Town, South Africa |
Alma mater | Simon Fraser University, Stanford University (PhD) |
Awards | Julius Axelrod Award in Pharmacology, ASPET (2019), Biophysics of Health and Disease Biophysical Society (2020) |
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Thesis | 'Intermembrane Protein Transfer' |
Website | http://newtonlab.ucsd.edu |
Alexandra C. Newton is a Canadian and American biochemist. She is a Distinguished Professor of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.[1] Newton runs a multidisciplinary Protein kinase C and Cell signaling biochemistry and cell biology research group in the School of Medicine,[2] investigating molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in the Phospholipase C (PLC) and Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3 kinase, or PI3-K) signaling pathways.[3] She has been continuously funded by the US National Institutes of Health since 1988.