Maria Jasin

Maria Jasin (born 1956) is a molecular biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her lab studies homologous recombination, a method in which breaks in DNA strands are repaired. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Maria Jasin
Born1956 (age 64–65)
Detroit, Michigan
Alma mater
Known forhomologous recombination
AwardsNAS (2015)
AAAS (2017)
Shaw Prize (2019)
Scientific career
Fieldsmolecular biology; developmental biology
Institutions
ThesisGene deletions and point mutations which define functional domains in alanine tRNA synthetase
Doctoral advisorPaul Schimmel[1]

Career

Jasin received her PhD in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the group of Paul Schimmel,[1] and did postdoctoral research at the University of Zürich and Stanford University.[2]

Jasin is a scientist in the department of developmental biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is also a professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her research has been supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation since 2017.[2]

Jasin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015[3] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[4] She was awarded the Basser Global Prize in 2018 [5] and the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences in 2019.[6]

References
  1. "Gene deletions and point mutations which define functional domains in alanine tRNA synthetase".
  2. "Maria Jasin | Researcher". Breast Cancer Research Foundation. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  3. "Maria Jasin". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  4. "The Maria Jasin Lab". Sloan Kettering Institute. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  5. "Maria Jasin: Basser Global Prize". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  6. Shaw Prize 2019
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