Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center geneticist Linda Breeden, PhD, recently retired from a career spent untangling the intricacies of the factors that regulate the cell cycle, the series of steps a cell takes to divide into two new cells.
Now a professor emerita, Breeden focused on the factors and DNA elements that turn on the genes needed to jumpstart the cell cycle in resting cells. After making notable contributions to the cell cycle field, Breeden pivoted and began studying how cells stop the cell cycle by entering the dormant state known as quiescence.
