Forschung

Ellen Fanning is distinguished for many important contributions to molecular virology and mammalian chromosomal replication. Many of these were made from the Institute of Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Munich, where she was a faculty member for 14 years, and since 1995 from Vanderbilt University. She is best known for research on the multifunctional SV40 regulatory protein T antigen, its structure, and regulation by phosphorylation. She currently studies interactions among mammalian proteins in DNA processing and mammalian chromosomal origins of replication.