Elaine Ostrander
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| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) Syracuse, New York |
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National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute |
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Oregon Health & Science University University of Washington Harvard University |
| Known for | Research on prostate cancer Conducting genetic investigations with the canis familiaris, the domestic dog model |
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Elaine Ann Ostrander is an American geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland She holds a number of professional academic appointments, currently serving as senior scientist and head of the NHGRI Section of Comparative Genomics; Chief of the NHGRI Cancer Genetics Branch; and Chief of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch. She is known for her research on prostate cancer and for conducting genetic investigations with the canis familiaris, the domestic dog model, used to study disease susceptibility and frequency and other aspects of natural variation in mammals. In 2007, her laboratory showed that most of the variation in body size of domestic dogs is due to differences in a single gene encoding a growth-promoting protein.
Ostrander was born in Syracuse, New York in 1958. Her father was a librarian and her mother was a school administrator. The family lived in New Jersey, Nebraska, and then Washington. She has a sister and a brother, marine biologist Gary Ostrander. She attended high school at Eisenhower High School (Yakima, Washington).
Ostrander received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1987, she was awarded a Ph.D. from the Oregon Health Sciences University (now known as the Oregon Health & Science University) in Portland. She completed postdoctoral training in molecular biology at Harvard. From 1991-1993, she was a staff scientist in the Genetics and Human Genome Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. At Berkeley, she worked in the laboratory of Jasper Rine, where the dog genome project originated.
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