12 Facts About Lisa Steiner

Lisa Steiner is a professor of immunology in the department of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lisa Steiner's research focuses on the evolution and development of the immune system, using zebrafish as a model organism.

Lisa Steiner spend the rest of her childhood in Queens, New York.

Lisa Steiner won the well-known Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition as a high school student but chose to major in mathematics at Swarthmore College, where she received her bachelor's degree.

Lisa Steiner then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Herman Eisen at the Washington University School of Medicine, where she began her research in immunology.

Lisa Steiner was recruited to MIT in 1967 by Jack Buchanan, who headed the Division of Biochemistry within the biology department and was actively seeking out new young faculty.

Lisa Steiner has remained at MIT since and continues to maintain an active research program.

Lisa Steiner was involved in efforts led by Nancy Hopkins and joined by Mary-Lou Pardue and others to study the effects of gender discrimination on women faculty at MIT and bring the problem to the attention of then-President Charles Vest.

In 1994, Lisa Steiner was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight and challenge gender discrimination at MIT.

Lisa Steiner received a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship to work with Eisen as a postdoctoral fellow and has continued her involvement with that organization, currently serving as its vice president.

Lisa Steiner's research focuses on the evolution and development of the immune system in vertebrates, using as a model organism the zebrafish.

Lisa Steiner has worked with the molecular genetics of the zebrafish immune system.