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 Joan Ruderman, Ph.D.
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard University
Joan Ruderman is the Marion V. Nelson Professor at Harvard Medical School. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her Ph. D. from M.I.T., both in Biology. Following postdoctoral work, also at M.I.T., she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and later moved to Duke University. She returned to Harvard in 1989, where she is in the Department of Cell Biology. She is also a member of N.I.E.H.S. Center for Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Board of Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. She has also served on the Medical Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Much of Dr. Ruderman's work over the past 25 years has focused on the molecular mechanisms that regulate progress through the cell division cycle, with special emphasis on the roles that phosphorylation and ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis play in driving cells through mitosis. More recently, her lab has started to use zebrafish to ask how hormonally active pollutants affect early embryonic development with the goal of trying to understand how such pollutants adversely affect reproductive success. She also offers a new graduate level course on hormonally active pollutants: http://ruderman.haps.hms.harvard.edu Dr. Ruderman's scientific contributions have been recognized by her election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the National Academy of Sciences and, most recently, by the NYU/Dart Biotechnology Award in 2007.
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