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Angelika Amon
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![]() Angelika Amon in October 2017.
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Born | 10 January 1967 Vienna, Austria
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Died | 29 October 2020 (aged 53) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Nationality | Austrian |
Citizenship | Austria & United States |
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Known for | Chromosome duplication and cell division |
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Doctoral advisor | Kim Nasmyth |
Angelika Amon, Ph.D. (10 January 1967 – 29 October 2020) was an Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist. He was the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Amon's research focused on how chromosomes are regulated and repeated in the cell cycle. Amon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
Amon died of ovarian cancer on 29 October 2020 in Cambridge at the age of 53.
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