About Ulla Hansen
Ulla Hansen was a Swedish writer and biologist.
Ulla Hansen is a professor emerita of biology at Boston University. Her research group focuses on the study of transcription factor LSF (also known as TFCP2).
Biography Hansen received her bachelor's degree in 1974 from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in 1980 from Harvard University, where she worked with William R. McClure. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Phillip A. Sharp. She became an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in 1983, and moved to the department of biology at Boston University in 1998. She served as associate chair of the department for five years and as the director of the Graduate Program of Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Cell Biology. She has had a particular interest in LSF's role in liver cancer. Hansen coauthored several heavily cited papers, including the review article "Active repression mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription repressors" in Trends in Genetics.
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