Amgen research scientist appears on Trading Spouses

Fox's Trading Spouses on Nov. 17 featured a real-life scientist, Vered Solomon of Amgen (Thousand Oaks, CA). Solomon is co-author of the paper Regulation of Protein Catabolism by Muscle-Specific and Cytokine-Inducible Ubiquitin Ligase E3-II during Cancer Cachexia, Cancer Research 64, 8193-8198, November 15, 2004.

Dr. Avram Hersko, who shared the chemistry Nobel in 2004, is a named inventor on U.S. Patent 6,528,633 (issued March 4, 2003 and assigned to President and Fellows of Havard College (Cambridge, MA); Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences (Haifa, IL)), entitled "Cyclin-selective ubiquitin carrier polypeptides."

Although Vered Solomon does not seem to be a listed inventor on a US patent, her papers are cited in US Patents, such as her paper, "The N-end Rule Pathway Catalyzes a major Fraction of the Protein Degradation in Skeletal Muscle," The Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 273, No. 39, pp. 25216-25222, Sep. 25, 1998, cited in US 7,074,620, Controlling protein levels in eucaryotic organisms, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/406,781, filed Sep. 28, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,306,663