Debbie C. Crans
professor of chemistry
Debbie C. Crans is a professor of Organic, Inorganic and Biological Chemistry and of Cell and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University, where she also is a Professor Laureate of the College of Natural Sciences. Crans specializes in the fundamental chemistry and biochemistry of drugs, with particular focus on vanadium and other transition metal ions as metals in medicine and investigation of their mechanisms of toxicity.
Education
Debbie Crans studied at the University of Copenhagen, studying for her Cand. Scient. 1. part (B.S.) in 1974–1978, then her Cand. Scient. 2. part (research) in 1978–1980. During this time, she worked with Prof.
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