Benita Katzenellenbogen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Benita Katzenellenbogen

American professor of physiology and cell biology

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: physiologist, academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Benita S.
Katzenellenbogen née Schulman (born 1945) is an American Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She has made major contributions in understanding cancer, endocrinology, and women's health, focusing on nuclear receptors and on improving the effectiveness of endocrine therapies in breast cancer.
Her work has delineated structure-function relationships and mechanisms of action of estrogen receptors alpha and beta.
She has elucidated the molecular basis of action of SERMs such as tamoxifen and raloxifene in treatment and prevention of breast cancer, and she has identified critical aggressiveness factors in breast tumors that promote metastasis and resistance to cancer therapies, and she has studied approaches to inhibit them.