Matthew_P._Scott
Matthew P. Scott is an American biologist who was the tenth president of the Carnegie Institution for Science.[3] While at Stanford University, Scott studied how embryonic and later development is governed by proteins that control gene activity and cell signaling processes.[4] [5] He co-[6] discovered homeobox genes in Drosophila melanogaster working with Amy J. Weiner at Indiana University.[7][8]
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Among his laboratory's discoveries, he is recognized for the cloning of the patched gene family and demonstration that a human homolog PTCH1 is a key tumor suppressor gene for the Hedgehog signaling pathway as well as the causative gene for the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, or Gorlin syndrome.[9][10]