Betsey Wagener, PhD
Biography
Betsey Wagener earned her B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Wittenberg University (Ohio). She obtained her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from University of Arizona. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Arizona. She joined the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education as Deputy Director of the Graduate Partnerships Program in 2008. Betsey has also worked with Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation as a Research Program Manager, and with Roche Tissue Diagnostics as a Project Manager. In 2019, she returned to University of Arizona to work with the Skin Cancer Prevention research team.
Cancer Focus
The overall goal of the multi-institutional Targeted Prevention for Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Program Project Grant (P01) is to employ novel technologies and develop new targeted prevention strategies to eradicate intraepithelial neoplasias in the skin (e.g. actinic keratosis, squamous cell carcinoma in situ), and thereby, to dramatically reduce the risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas.
Selected Publications
J. G. Einspahr, Curiel-Lewandrowski, C., Calvert, V. S., Stratton, S. P., Alberts, D. S., Warneke, J., Hu, C., Saboda, K., Wagener, E. L., Dickinson, S., Dong, Z., Bode, A. M., and PetricoinIII, E. F., “Protein activation mapping of human sun-protected epidermis after an acute dose of erythemic solar simulated light.”, NPJ Precis Oncol, vol. 1, 2017. PMCID: PMC5695572 PMID: 29167824
E. L. Bair, Nagle, R. B., Ulmer, T. A., Laferté, S., and G Bowden, T., “90K/Mac-2 binding protein is expressed in prostate cancer and induces promatrilysin expression.”, Prostate, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 283-93, 2006. PMID: 16245278
E. L. Bair, Chen, M. Ling, McDaniel, K., Sekiguchi, K., Cress, A. E., Nagle, R. B., and Bowden, G. Timothy, “Membrane type 1 matrix metalloprotease cleaves laminin-10 and promotes prostate cancer cell migration.”, Neoplasia, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 380-9, 2005. PMCID: PMC1501144 PMID: 15967115
E. L. Bair, Massey, C. P., Tran, N. L., Borchers, A. H., Heimark, R. L., Cress, A. E., and Bowden, G. T., “Integrin- and cadherin-mediated induction of the matrix metalloprotease matrilysin in cocultures of malignant oral squamous cell carcinoma cells and dermal fibroblasts.”, Exp Cell Res, vol. 270, no. 2, pp. 259-67, 2001. PMID: 11640889