UNION PROFESSOR PRESENTS RESEARCH AT AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH
Jackson, Tenn. — Dr. Glenn A. Marsch, assistant professor of chemistry and physics at 51ÉçÇø, presented a paper recently at the 88th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego, Calif.
The title of Marsch's research presentation was "Facile formation of base-stacked benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide adducts to single-stranded or double-stranded DNA oligomers containing mutagenic sequences." The presentation provided evidence that a certain type of damage to the genetic code (DNA) might be responsibility for cancer initiation.
Marsch, who received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1990, joined Union's faculty in 1996 after teaching chemistry at the University of the Pacific and serving as a biomedical scientist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.