Anthony R. Hunter
Tony Hunter (actually Anthony Rex Hunter, born August 23, 1943 in Ashford, Kent) is a British- American biochemist and professor of molecular and cell biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego.
Life
Hunter earned a bachelor's degree in 1965, 1966 and 1969, a master a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, England. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California (1971-1973) and at the University of Cambridge (1968-1971 and 1973-1975 ). He subsequently received at the Salk Institute, a junior professorship ( Assistant Professor in 1975, Associate Professor 1978) and in 1982 a full professorship. Since 1979 he has additionally teaching duties at the University of California, San Diego, first as Associate Adjunct Professor, since 1983 as an adjunct professor. From 1992 to 2008 he was also a Research Professorship from the American Cancer Society. Since 2008 he leads the Cancer Research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Work
Hunter presented fundamental work on protein kinases, enzymes that phosphorylate proteins and are thus involved in the regulation of various processes in the cell. Its results play an important role in cancer research. In particular, the tyrosine kinase Src Hunter could identify ( gene product of the same proto-oncogene SRC) and work out their importance in cell division and cancer. Receptor tyrosine kinases also play an important role in the signal transduction of the cell, in particular by the growth factors.