Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff was born on April 9,1942 and is an American molecular biologist known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable elements or jumping genes.
11 Facts About Nina Fedoroff
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Nina Fedoroff then relocated to Philadelphia where she planned to study music but returned to study science at Syracuse University.
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Nina Fedoroff received her PhD in molecular biology 1972 from The Rockefeller University.
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Nina Fedoroff moved in 1978 to the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore, Maryland, worked on developmental biology at the Department of Embryology, where she pioneered DNA sequencing and worked out the nucleotide sequence of the first complete gene.
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In 1995, Fedoroff arrived at Pennsylvania State University as the Verne M Willaman professor of Life Sciences and founded and directed the organization now known as the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
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In 1990, Nina Fedoroff was honored with the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award from University of Chicago, and in 1992 she received the New York Academy of Sciences Outstanding Contemporary Women Scientist Award.
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In 1997, Fedoroff received the John P McGovern Science and Society Medal from Sigma Xi.
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Nina Fedoroff was Science and Technology Adviser to US Secretaries of State, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton and from 2007 to 2010 to the administrator Rajiv Shah for the United States Agency for International Development.
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Nina Fedoroff was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2011 to 2012.
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Nina Fedoroff is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology.
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Nina Fedoroff was a single mother, and as she was studying and trying to make a living, she was able to raise her three children alone.