Dr. Eng was the 2006 Oppenheimer laureate when she was cited for her outstanding decade - long research on RET testing in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 as the paradigm for the practice of clinical cancer genetics and for her elegant work with Hartmut Neumann, MD, on the delineation of genotype and phenotypic spectra of the genes encoding succinate dehydrogenase and predisposition to pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. (lerner.ccf.org)
Using current molecular technology along with information from interviews with the patient's living relatives, the authors found that the specific inherited condition causing her death was «multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2» (MEN - 2). (lerner.ccf.org)