Evolution - the Molecular Landscape Interview with LUCY SHAPIRO interviewed by Richard Sever

Lucy Shapiro holds the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Chair in the Department of Developmental Biology and is the Director... » More

Lucy Shapiro holds the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Chair in the Department of Developmental Biology and is the Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She joined the faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1989 and served as the founding Chairman of the Department of Developmental Biology from 1989-1997. Prior to coming to Stanford, Professor Shapiro was the Higgins Professor and Chair of Microbiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. She founded the anti-infectives discovery company, Anacor Pharmaceuticals, in 2001 and is currently a non-executive director of Gen-Probe, Inc. Professor Shapiro was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She was awarded the FASEB Excellence in Science Award, and the 2005 Selman A. Waksman Prize from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.



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