Laurie Glimcher was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
24 Facts About Laurie Glimcher
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In October 2024, Laurie Glimcher stepped down as President and CEO of Dana-Farber.
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Laurie Glimcher graduated from the Winsor School, an all-girls private school in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1968.
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Laurie Glimcher joined the board of directors of Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1997 and retired from the board in 2017.
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From 1991 to 2012, Laurie Glimcher was the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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From 2012 to 2016, Laurie Glimcher served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and the Cornell University Provost for Medical Affairs.
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At Dana-Farber, Laurie Glimcher collaborated on research to find methods of combatting cancer from within the human immune system.
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Laurie Glimcher's role helped discover Schnurri-3 is a large zinc finger protein distantly related to Drosophila.
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Laurie Glimcher's research has had implications for understanding asthma, HIV, inflammatory bowel disease, and osteoporosis, and around 2016, on cancer immunotherapy.
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Laurie Glimcher became interested in immunology during her first year of medical school at Harvard.
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Laurie Glimcher has been interested in studying the ties between ER stress system in neurons and immune function and neuro-degeneration.
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Laurie Glimcher received the L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2014 for her work in the field of immunology and her research regarding the control of immune responses.
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Laurie Glimcher received the Steven C Beering Award in 2015.
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Laurie Glimcher has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Laurie Glimcher is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association of Physicians, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Laurie Glimcher was the president of the American Association of Immunologists from 2003 to 2004.
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Laurie Glimcher followed in the footsteps of her father by later becoming a full professor at Harvard Medical School at the age of 39; the two became research partners.
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Laurie Glimcher is married to Gregory Petsko, Professor of Neurology in the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center and chair of biochemistry at Brandeis University prior to moving to Weill Cornell Medicine, where he became director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute.
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Laurie Glimcher's eldest son, Dr Hugh Glimcher Auchincloss, is a physician, currently a cardiothoracic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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In 2015, Laurie Glimcher was targeted by animal rights activists over their protest of withdrawal of support for chimpanzees in Liberia by the New York Blood Center where Laurie Glimcher had been on the board for two years.
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When Laurie Glimcher began work at Dana-Farber, she continued to serve on the board of pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb even though the company was involved in a legal battle with Dana-Farber over patent rights and drug royalties.
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Laurie Glimcher subsequently resigned from that position and joined another pharmaceutical board, as a director of GlaxoSmithKline.
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In January 2024 Laurie Glimcher was among four researchers at Dana-Farber accused of falsifying data in research papers.
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Laurie Glimcher has attempted to correct some of the data, however six of these papers have been retracted pending outcome of investigation while others are being corrected.