Education
- Graduate: PhD, 1989, Rockefeller University
- Undergraduate: BA, 1982, Political Science, Williams College; BS, 1984, Genetics, Cambridge University
Research Summary
Sally Kornbluth is President of MIT. Before she closed her lab to focus on administration, her research focused on the biological signals that tell a cell to start dividing or to self-destruct — processes that are key to understanding cancer as well as various degenerative disorders. She has published extensively on cell proliferation and programmed cell death, studying both phenomena in a variety of organisms. Her research has helped to show how cancer cells evade this programmed death, or apoptosis, and how metabolism regulates the cell death process; her work has also clarified the role of apoptosis in regulating the duration of female fertility in vertebrates.Honors and Awards
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
- Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2018
- Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2013
- Distinguished Faculty Award, Duke Medical Alumni Association, 2013
- Basic Science Research Mentoring Award, Duke University School of Medicine, 2012
Previous Administrative Leadership Positions
- Provost, Duke University, 2014 - 2022
- Vice Dean for Basic Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, 2006 - 2014