Dr. Planey received her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Florida. She has also held industry positions at Medarex Inc., in Bloomsbury, NJ, and at Genaera Corporation in Plymouth Meeting, PA, as well as editorial positions at BioCentric Inc., JK Associates, and for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Magazine. Her areas of research expertise are in signal transduction, palmitoylation and cancer biology with a specific focus on the signaling networks under the control of the ZDHHC2 gene that are important to cancer and interstitial cystitis.