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          Herbert and Florence Irving Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics.!

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        1. Tannishtha REYA | Cited by | of Columbia University, New York City (CU) | Read publications | Contact Tannishtha REYA.
        2. Tannishtha Reya, Professor, Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
        3. Herbert and Florence Irving Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics.
        4. The Alt Award will go to Tannishtha Reya, PhD, at the University of California, San Diego.
        5. Tannishtha Reya, Ph.D., is an associate professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke University.

          6. Tannishtha Reya

          Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist

          Tannishtha Reya is an Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist working in cancer research at Columbia University in New York.

          She has received numerous awards, including an NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2009 and an NCI Outstanding Investigator Award in 2015.[1] Reya is particularly known for co-authoring an influential publication in 2001 coining the term "cancer stem cell" to describe a cancer cell that mirrors the properties of stem cells of healthy organs in the context of leukaemias or solid tumours.[2]

          Education

          Reya was born in India and is the granddaughter of writers Buddhadeb Bose and Protiva Bose.

          She moved to the US when she was seventeen to take a liberal arts degree at Williams College in Massachusetts because she wanted to be "exposed to both literature and the sciences.".[3] She then pursued her PhD in immunology at the University of Pennsylvani