Jorge Torres, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant by the American Cancer Society. These grants support innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines to meet critically important needs in the control of cancer.
Torres received his B.S. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from UC Santa Barbara in 1998. He obtained his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Princeton University in 2004 and conducted his postdoctoral work at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Genentech Inc. until 2009 when he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. He has previously been awarded the Basil O'Connor Award from the March of Dimes Foundation, the V Scholar Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Cottrell Scholar Award by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Torres received his B.S. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from UC Santa Barbara in 1998. He obtained his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Princeton University in 2004 and conducted his postdoctoral work at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Genentech Inc. until 2009 when he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. He has previously been awarded the Basil O'Connor Award from the March of Dimes Foundation, the V Scholar Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Cottrell Scholar Award by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
