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23 May 2023
Stowers scientist’s battle with breast cancer comes full circle
Heather Marshall's decades-long professional pursuit of studying mice became intertwined with her personal journey to conquer cancer.
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Heather Marshall, Ph.D., was named Head of the Stowers Laboratory Animal Services Facility in 2005. In 2019, she was appointed the Director of Model Organism Research at Stowers, which has oversight of all the model organism facilities that assist Stowers research endeavors. Marshall is a member of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and served for four years as Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Stowers.
Marshall pursued her undergraduate studies at the University College of Wales, after which she worked as Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. Later, after relocating to London, Marshall joined the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, working in the Division of Developmental Neurobiology then headed by Stowers Investigator and Scientific Director Emeritus Robb Krumlauf. It was there that she received her Ph.D. In 2000, Krumlauf asked Marshall to help establish his lab in Kansas City at the Stowers Institute.
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23 May 2023
Heather Marshall's decades-long professional pursuit of studying mice became intertwined with her personal journey to conquer cancer.
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Press Release
15 January 2019
New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has identified a backup for an important biological system – the hematopoietic system, whose adult stem cells constantly replenish the body’s blood supply.
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