Susan Lindquist | |
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![]() Susan Lindquist in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society | |
Born | Susan Lee Lindquist June 5, 1949 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | October 27, 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 67)
Alma mater | |
Known for | protein folding heat-shock proteins prions |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Molecular biology |
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Thesis | Protein and RNA synthesis induced by heat treatment in Drosophila melanogaster tissue culture cells (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Matthew Meselson[3] |
Website | lindquistlab |
Susan Lee Lindquist, ForMemRS (June 5, 1949 – October 27, 2016) was an American professor of biology at MIT[4][5] specializing in molecular biology, particularly the protein folding problem[3][6] within a family of molecules known as heat-shock proteins,[7][8] and prions.[9] Lindquist was a member and former director of the Whitehead Institute and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2010.[10][11][12]
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