Lila Gierasch
Lila Mary Gierasch (born 1948 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American biochemist and biophysicist.
Lila Gierasch | |
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Born | 1948 (age 72–73) |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Education | Mount Holyoke College |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biochemistry Biophysics |
Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Life
Lila M. Gierasch, like her mother Marian Bookhout Gierasch, studied at Mount Holyoke College.[1] She graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor's degree in chemistry. She then went to Harvard University as a doctoral student and earned her doctorate in biophysics in 1975. Since 1974 she taught at Amherst College, where she worked as an assistant professor in chemistry. She worked under Jean-Marie Lehn at Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg between 1977 and 1978. In 1979 she went to University of Delaware for a position as an assistant professor, and was promoted to a professor in chemistry in 1985. Gierasch was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 for molecular and cellular biology.[2] In 1988 she moved to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and worked as a professor in pharmacology for six years. She was the chair of Robert A. Welch Professor of Biochemistry.
In Texas she met her husband John Pylant, whom she married in 1991.[3] She returned to Massachusetts in 1994, and has been a Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology ever since. She is Head of the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of University of Massachusetts Amherst.[4][5]
In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[6]
References
- Lila Gierasch. Mount Holyoke College. Accessed 28 August 2014.
- "Search Results - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". October 6, 2012. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- JOHN PYLANT LILA GIERASCH, Texas Marriage Record Index, 1966–2008. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Mocavo, DC Thomson Family History. Accessed 30 August 2014.
- Biophysicist in Profile: Lila Gierasch. Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Biophysical Society Newsletter, January/February 2003. Accessed 26 August 2014.
- Curriculum vitae—Lila M. Gierasch. Gierasch Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Accessed 26 August 2014.
- "2019 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved April 30, 2019.