JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist best known for her work on ribonucleotide reductases, for which she was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2009.
16 Facts About JoAnne Stubbe
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In 1968, Stubbe received a BS degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked as an undergraduate in the laboratory of Professor Edward R Thornton.
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JoAnne Stubbe's realization sent her to Brandeis University, where she did a second postdoc with Bob Abeles.
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JoAnne Stubbe taught at Yale School of Medicine as an assistant professor in the department of pharmacology.
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JoAnne Stubbe was an assistant professor for a total of 12 years.
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In 1987, JoAnne Stubbe became a professor in the MIT Chemistry Department, where she became the first woman to receive tenure in that department.
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JoAnne Stubbe received a joint appointment in the MIT Biology Department in 1990.
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JoAnne Stubbe has published over 300 scientific papers and has been frequently recognized for her research achievements.
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JoAnne Stubbe revolutionized the biochemistry field with her first two scientific papers on enzymes enolase and pyruvate kinase.
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JoAnne Stubbe's first groundbreaking experiments were carried out in the late 1970s and early 1980s, while she was at Yale, then the University of Wisconsin.
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JoAnne Stubbe was trying to understand how the hydroxyl group at the 2' position of the ribonucleotide's sugar was replaced by the hydrogen found in deoxyribonucleotides.
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JoAnne Stubbe reportedly kept a bed in her office since she worked around the clock on her experiments.
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JoAnne Stubbe pioneered the use of spectroscopic investigations of enzyme interactions and has devoted most of her career to elucidating the biochemical mechanisms behind free radicals.
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JoAnne Stubbe extended her research into polyhydroxybutyrates, a class of biodegradable polymers that can be synthesized by bacteria under certain conditions and then converted into plastics.
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JoAnne Stubbe was active on several committees, including review boards for the NIH grants committee and the editorial boards for various scientific journals.
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JoAnne Stubbe's parents were teachers, and that is why she thought teaching is what she originally wanted to do as a career.