Dr. Paul A. Price

pprice@ucsd.edu

Paul Price received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry from Pomona College in 1964 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1968 from Rockefeller University.

Dr. Price received UCSD's Outstanding Teacher Awards in 1971, 1979, 1985, 1988 and 1992, and was named as an Academic Senate Distinguished Teacher for the 2000-2001 academic year.  He also received an NIH Merit Award for Research and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Julia Johansen

julia.johansen@post3.tele.dk

Julia Johansen graduated from the University of Copenhagen Medical School in 1988. She has been lucky enough to be able to work in the Price Lab three times (1988/89, 1991, and 1998/99) and hopes to return again. Thanks to email it has been possible to continue "long distance" research projects on YKL-40 with the Price Lab. Her main research interests are rheumatoid arthritis and cancer diseases. Julia is presently working in the Department of Oncology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Leonor Cancela

lcancela@ualg.pt

Leonor Cancela obtained her BA in 1981 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,and carried out her graduate work on the effects of vitamin D during neonatal calcium metabolism and bone development at the INSERM Research Unit on Bone Metabolism in Lariboisiere Hospital, earning her PhD in Biochemistry in 1985. Her postdoctoral training included a 2 year stay at the Department of Biochemistry, University of California Riverside with Dr. Anthony Norman on the molecular biology of vitamin D dependent proteins. She joined the laboratory of Dr. Paul Price in February of 1988 where she remained until October 1992 working on Matrix Gla protein gene expression and regulation. She is presently Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal but has maintained a research collaboration with the Price lab, in particular on the purification of lower vertebrate BGPs and MGPs and on the establishment of their 3D structure. Her major research interests are on the molecular mechanisms of cell differentiation and mineralization in lower vertebrates. She has developed bone derived cell lines from fish and amphibian and identified the genes for Matrix Gla and Bone Gla proteins in various teleost fish and amphibian model systems.

dtoroian@gmail.com

Damon studied microbiology as an undergraduate at UC Davis and graduated in 1999.  He next worked for two years as a research associate at Sangamo Biosciences, and while there developed a strong interest in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  Because of that newly formed interest, he joined the Price lab after coming to UCSD.  The focus of his work in the lab is the characterization of BGP and its apparent ability to affect calcification in vivo and in vitro.