Work Email Address:
jgasson@mednet.ucla.edu
Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-5268
http://portal.ctrl.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=46712
Laboratory Address:
700 Tiverton Ave
Factor 11-151
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office Address:
700 Tiverton Ave
Factor 8-684
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Affiliations |
Senior Associate Dean for Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
Professor, Biological Chemistry, Medicine |
Director, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center |
Associate Director, CTSI |
Co-Director, Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research |
Judith Gasson, Ph.D., became the director of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) on Sept. 15, 1995. She is a molecular biologist and is responsible for one of only 40 institutions designated as comprehensive cancer centers by the National Cancer Institute. Gasson earned her doctorate degree in physiology at the University of Colorado in 1979. She did her postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, studying glucocorticoid hormones, which are made by the adrenal gland in response to stress. In 1983, she left the Salk Institute to join JCCC. Gasson was instrumental in purifying for the first time a hormone-like substance that increases the speed of bone marrow cell reproduction. That substance, called GM-CSF, is used to help prevent infections in cancer patients and to allow those patients to tolerate more chemotherapy and radiation than had previously been possible. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Gasson has been the director of UCLA�s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), among the nation�s top 10, according to U.S. News & World Report. Under her leadership, the JCCC has become a recognized international pioneer in �translating� laboratory discoveries into more effective new therapies for cancer patients everywhere.