1. Sally Kornbluth began serving as the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 2023.
15 Facts About Sally Kornbluth
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Sally Kornbluth's father George was an accountant and her mother, Marisa Galvany, was an opera singer.
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Sally Kornbluth received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in political science from Williams College in 1982 and a Bachelor of Science with a major in genetics from the University of Cambridge in 1984.
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Sally Kornbluth received a Doctor of Philosophy in molecular oncology from the Rockefeller University in 1989.
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Sally Kornbluth worked at the laboratory of Hidesaburo Hanafusa when at Rockefeller University, and performed postdoctoral training with John Newport at the University of California, San Diego.
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Sally Kornbluth's research focuses on cell growth and programmed cell death and how cancer cells evade apoptosis.
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Sally Kornbluth is interested in the role of programmed cell death in regulating the length of female fertility in vertebrates, in a mechanism regulated by caspase-2.
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Sally Kornbluth was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2013.
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In 2014 Sally Kornbluth became provost at Duke, the first woman to serve in this role.
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Sally Kornbluth is an advocate of liberal arts education and has stated that her own experience in a liberal arts school at Williams College led her to a career in the sciences.
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Sally Kornbluth is an advocate for on-line learning as a driver of pedagogic innovation.
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Sally Kornbluth served as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Duke Kunshan University, overseeing the appointment of Al Bloom as the university's Executive Vice Chancellor in 2020, and the launch of the WHU-Duke Research Institute in 2014.
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Sally Kornbluth served as provost from 2014 to 2022 and vice dean for basic sciences at Duke University School of Medicine from 2006 to 2014.
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In 2022, Kornbluth was selected as the 18th president of MIT, succeeding L Rafael Reif in 2023.
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Sally Kornbluth is married to Daniel Lew, a professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at the Duke University School of Medicine.