Brigid Hogan is currently a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University, Born in the UK, she became an American citizen in 2000.
17 Facts About Brigid Hogan
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Brigid Hogan earned her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and did postdoctoral work in the Department of Biology at MIT.
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Brigid Hogan was the head of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and later Hortense B Ingram Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and a founding director of the Stem Cell and Organogenesis Program at Vanderbilt University.
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Brigid Hogan has served as president of the American Society for Developmental Biology and the American Society for Cell Biology.
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Brigid Hogan was awarded the sixth International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize in 2008 for "outstanding contributions to the field of transgene technologies".
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Brigid Hogan delivered a 2011 Martin Rodbell Lecture, hosted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Croonian Lecture of the Royal Society of London in 2014.
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Brigid Hogan was born in Denham, a small village near London.
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The village Brigid Hogan grew up in was close to nature and fostered her love for biology.
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Brigid Hogan attended a High Wycombe High School for girls, where her biology teacher mentored her as she applied to Cambridge University.
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Brigid Hogan was admitted to Newnham College, Cambridge's all-women's college, where she faced negative attitudes from male faculty due to her gender, typical of the time.
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Since Cambridge offered no courses in cell or developmental biology at the time, Brigid Hogan did her post-doctorate work on sea urchin development with Paul Gross at MIT.
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Around 1974, back in Britain, Brigid Hogan began her work on mouse embryonic stem cells at the Mill Hill Labs of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London under director John Cairns.
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Brigid Hogan was the head of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and then the National Institute of Medical Research in London.
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Brigid Hogan left Vanderbilt in 2002 after 13 years to head the department of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center, making her the first woman to chair a basic sciences department there.
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Brigid Hogan continues to plan an active role in the Cell Biology Department and the Developmental and Stem Cell training program.
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Brigid Hogan's lab studied the lung, due to it developing through "branching morphogenesis".
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Brigid Hogan is particularly interested in the stem cells of the mouse lung as models for human lung cells that are often affected by disease.