Laboratory of Molecular Biology
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America
Dr. Gottesman received her Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology at Harvard University and became a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH. She then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a research associate and returned to the NIH in 1976 as a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where she has remained. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. She received the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Chromosome Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry