Nancy Carrasco
Nancy Carrasco | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | School of Chemistry, UNAM School of Medicine, UNAM |
| Spouse | Samuel Zyman |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Pew Award, (1989)
Beckman Young Investigators Award (1991) Maria Sibylla Merian Award, Germany (1998) Merck Prize (European Thyroid Association), Poland (2001) Rose Pitt-Rivers Lecturer at the British Endocrine Society Meeting, Glasgow (2003) Coleman Fellow in Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (2008) Marshall S. Horwitz Faculty Prize for Research Excellence (2009) Light of Life Award (2010) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lecturer, American Thyroid Association (2016) Plenary Lecturer, 1st International Meeting on Science, Health, and Gender, Mexico (2018) Member of the National Academy of Medicine (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular physiology Biochemistry Cell physiology |
| Institutions | Vanderbilt University Yale University Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Nancy Carrasco is a professor in, and the chair of, the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University. Carrasco has conducted research in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics, molecular physiology, molecular endocrinology, and cancer. She cloned the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), a breakthrough in thyroid pathophysiology with ramifications for many other fields, including structure/function of transport proteins, molecular endocrinology, gene transfer studies, cancer, and public health (she has served on the Environmental Protection Agency's science advisory board).