Susan L Lindquist

Susan L. Lindquist, Ph.D., Member and Former Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lindquist was elected to the Board of Directors in 2004 and is a member of the Science & Technology Advisory Committee and the Public Policy Advisory Committee. Since 2001, Dr. Lindquist has been a member of the Whitehead Institute, a non-profit, independent research and educational institution, a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Dr. Lindquist served as Director of the Whitehead Institute from 2001 to 2004 and became an HHMI Investigator in 2006. Previously she had been affiliated with the University of Chicago for more than 20 years, and was the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and an HHMI Investigator. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996, the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and the Institute of Medicine in 2006. Dr. Lindquist has received the 2008 Genetics Society of America Medal, the Sigma Xi William Proctor Prize for academic achievement (2006), the Dickson Prize in Medicine (2002) and the Novartis Drew Award in Biomedical Research (2000). In 2006, Scientific American named her one of the country's top 50 leaders in business, policy and research. She is a member of the Science Advisory Council for the MacArthur Foundation and the Scientific Advisory Board for the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Lindquist is a Co-Founder of FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a private start-up company.