Susan L. Lindquist AKA Susan Lee Lindquist Born: 5-Jun-1949 Birthplace: Chicago, IL Died: 27-Oct-2016 Location of death: Boston, MA Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Biologist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Protein folding Molecular biologist Susan L. Lindquist was among the first scientists to propose that proteins could be a non-genetic carrier of inheritance. She has conducted groundbreaking research in protein conformation, showing that most biological processes include alterations in protein conformation, and that numerous heart conditions are related to structural irregularities and the "folding" of proteins — her work has been described as "unveiling the origami of life." Lindquist's research has advanced the scientific understanding of evolution, gene regulation, and stress tolerance, and has had applications in the study of Alzheimer's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and bovine spongiform encephalitis, commonly called Mad Cow disease. Father: Iver Lindquist Mother: Eleanor Maggio Husband: Edward Buckbee (non-profit executive, until her death, two daughters) Daughter: Eleanora (b. circa 1987) Daughter: Alana (b. circa 1989)
High School: Maine South High School, Park Ridge, IL University: BS Microbiology, University of Illinois (1971) University: PhD Biology, Harvard University (1976) Professor: Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, University of Chicago (1978-2001) Professor: Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001-) Administrator: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT (2001-04)
FoldRx Pharmaceuticals Co-Founder (2003-)
Member of the Board of Johnson & Johnson (2004-16)
Dickson Prize 2003 National Medal of Science 2009 Novartis-Drew Award in Biomedical Research 2000
National Medal of Science (2010) Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2006-) American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 American Academy of Microbiology Fellow (1997)
American Philosophical Society 2003 American Society for Cell Biology Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Trustee
Genetics Society of America Secretary (past) Institute of Medicine 2006 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Consultant National Academy of Sciences 1997 Italian Ancestry Maternal
Swedish Ancestry Paternal
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