Catherine Louise Day is a New Zealand biochemist. She is currently a professor and was the head of the biochemistry department at the

University of Otago The University of Otago () is a public university, public research university, research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand's oldest university and one of the oldest universities in ...

Career

After a BSc at

Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...

, Day completed a PhD entitled ''Expression and characterisation of the n-terminal half of human lactoferrin'' in 1993, also at Massey, before moving to the

where she rose to professor and head of department. She has received funding from the

Health Research Council of New Zealand The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is a Crown agency of the New Zealand Government. It is responsible for managing the government's investment in health research for the public good. The HRC was established under the Health Rese ...

and Genesis Oncology Trust and is an associate editor for biochemistry and biophysics of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

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Journal.

Awards

Day won the Otago School of Medical Sciences' top award for 2010.

Selected works

* Chen, Lin, Simon N. Willis, Andrew Wei, Brian J. Smith, Jamie I. Fletcher, Mark G. Hinds, Peter M. Colman, Catherine L. Day, Jerry M. Adams, and David CS Huang. "Differential targeting of prosurvival Bcl-2 proteins by their BH3-only ligands allows complementary apoptotic function."

Molecular Cell ''Molecular Cell'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research on cell biology at the molecular level, with an emphasis on new mechanistic insights. It was established in 1997 and is published two times per month. The journal is pu ...

17, no. 3 (2005): 393–403. * Van Delft, Mark F., Andrew H. Wei, Kylie D. Mason, Cassandra J. Vandenberg, Lin Chen, Peter E. Czabotar, Simon N. Willis et al. "The BH3 mimetic ABT-737 targets selective Bcl-2 proteins and efficiently induces apoptosis via Bak/Bax if Mcl-1 is neutralized."

Cancer cell Cancer cells are cells that divide continually, forming solid tumors or flooding the blood or lymph with abnormal cells. Cell division is a normal process used by the body for growth and repair. A parent cell divides to form two daughter cells, an ...

10, no. 5 (2006): 389–399. * Verhagen, Anne M., John Silke, Paul G. Ekert, Miha Pakusch, Hitto Kaufmann, Lisa M. Connolly, Catherine L. Day et al. "HtrA2 promotes cell death through its serine protease activity and its ability to antagonize inhibitor of apoptosis proteins."

Journal of Biological Chemistry The ''Journal of Biological Chemistry'' (''JBC'') is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1905., jbc.org Since 1925, it is published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It covers research i ...

277, no. 1 (2002): 445–454. *Czabotar, Peter E., Erinna F. Lee, Mark F. van Delft, Catherine L. Day, Brian J. Smith, David CS Huang, W. Douglas Fairlie, Mark G. Hinds, and Peter M. Colman. "Structural insights into the degradation of Mcl-1 induced by BH3 domains."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Scie ...

104, no. 15 (2007): 6217–6222.

References

External links

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