Joan A. Steitz
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Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is known for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights into how ribosomes interact with messenger RNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by small nuclear ribonucleic proteins (snRNPs), which occur in eukaryotes.[5][6][7][8][9] In September 2018, Steitz won the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. The Lasker award is often referred to as the 'American Nobel' because 87 of the former recipients have gone on to win Nobel prizes.[10]
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Born | Joan Elaine Argetsinger (1941-01-26) January 26, 1941 (age 83) Minneapolis, Minnesota, US |
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Spouse | Thomas Steitz |
Children | 1 |
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Thesis | Studies of the R17A protein (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | James D. Watson[4] |
Doctoral students | Sandra Wolin, Gia Voeltz |
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