Betsy Kren, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine                                                          Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition

Education:                                                                                              University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota                                                Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

Professional Organizations:

American Society for Microbiology

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

American Society for Gene Therapy

International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Recent Publications:                                                                                    Kren BT, Yin W, Key NS, Hebbel RP, Steer CJ.  BOEC as a vehicle for transgene delivery of hepatocyte secreted proteins via Sleeping Beauty.  Endothelium 14:97-104, 2007.

Park CW, Park J, Kren BT, Steer CJ.  Sleeping Beauty transposition in the mouse genome is associated with changes in DNA methylation at the site of insertion.  Genomics, 88:204-213, 2006. 

Sola S, Amaral JD, Castro RE, Ramalho RM, Borralho PM, Kren BT, Steer CJ, Rodrigues CMP.  Nuclear traffic of UDCA via the glucocorticoid receptor is essential for inhibiting TGF-?1-induced apoptosis of rat hepatocytes.  Hepatology, 42:925-934, 2005. 

Park CW, Kren BT, Largaespada DA, Steer CJ.  DNA methylation of Sleeping Beauty with transposition into the mouse genome.  Genes to Cells, 10:763-776, 2005.

Yin W, Kren BT, Steer CJ.  Site-specific base changes in the coding or promoter region of the human ?- and ?-globin genes by single-stranded oligonucleotides.  Biochem J, 390:253-261, 2005.