Molecular biologist Andrew Holland receives President s Frontier Award
The $250,000 Johns Hopkins award recognizes scholars who are on the cusp of becoming leaders in their fields By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published Feb 15, 2021
Cell division is the fundamental process for life. But when it goes awry, life itself can be threatened.
The fragile balance of centrosomes within animal cells and the cellular functions these organelles control are essential to a form of cell division called mitosis. That s where molecular biologist Andrew Holland focuses his research. We ve been trying to understand if there are differences in the way healthy cells and tumor cells divide, and if we can exploit those differences in therapies to selectively destroy dividing tumor cells and spare the healthy cells, said Holland, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Schoo