Sheila David

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Sheila Sue David is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of California, Davis. Her research uses chemical approaches to understand cellular mechanisms, including DNA repair. She focuses on the repair of damaged DNA bases, which is mediated by base excision repair. The research that she focuses on uses specific DNA glycosylases in order to search meticulously through the normal DNA to find potential mutagenic base modifications. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society