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Professor Ann Hochschild Ph.D. | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
| Spouse | James Oliver Schwartz |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Harvard Medical School |
| Academic advisors | Mark Ptashne |
Ann Hochschild is Maude & Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Microbiology. She is known for discovering prion proteins in bacteria.[1]
Education[edit]
Hochschild graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in English Literature in 1978. She then switched fields to science, and carried out her graduate work in Mark Ptashne’s laboratory at Harvard University, where she studied the regulatory mechanisms of phage lambda gene expression. After receiving her Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology in 1986, she spent three postdoctoral years as a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Career[edit]
Hochschild joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (now the Department of Microbiology) at Harvard Medical School in 1989. She discovered the first prion-forming protein in bacteria in the bacterium Clostridium difficile.[1][2] She was appointed as Chair of the Department of Microbiology in November 2018.[3]
Awards[edit]
• 1991 Searle Scholar Award[4]
• 1994 Presidential Young Investigator Award[5]
• American Heart Association Established Investigator Award
• Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
• 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award[6][7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Choi, Charles Q. (2017). "Prion-like protein spotted in bacteria for the first time". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21293. S2CID 90899065.
- ^ "In a first-of-its-kind discovery, bacteria found to form potentially infective prions". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- ^ Pesheva, Ekaterina (November 15, 2018). "Out of One, Two | Harvard Medical School". Harvard Medical School News. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Searle Scholars Biology Grants Help Lift New Faculty Members Over First Hurdles". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- ^ Dir of Awards, BIO/DEB (April 10, 1995). "NSF 95-81 Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences FY 1994 Awards".
- ^ "NIH selects nine Pioneers, Innovators from Harvard". Harvard Gazette. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- ^ "NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program - 2008 Award Recipients | NIH Common Fund". www.commonfund.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
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