Mary Fenner Dallman
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Mary Fenner Dallman (born April 11, 1935) is an American neuroendocrinologist. She is now professor emerita at University of California, San Francisco,[1] where she was the first tenure-track female faculty member in the Department of Physiology and worked for 38 years before retiring in 2007. She is known for her elucidation of along the hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal axis, and the discovery that comfort foods dampen the stress response.[2]
Early life
Dallman received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry[3] from Smith College (1956). After marrying her husband Peter and giving birth to her first two children during which time she worked as a technician, Dallman completed her Ph.D. in Physiology at Stanford University in the laboratory of Gene Yates (1967).
Career
Dallman then pursued two post-doctoral training stints, the first in Neuroscience in Stockholm, Sweden with Bengt Andersson and the second at UCSF in Neuroendocrinology with William Francis Ganong. She stayed on at UCSF thereafter, hired first as a lecturer for two years, before establishing her own lab as an assistant professor (1972), rising to full professor and serving as vice chair of the department for fourteen years.
Dallman trained 38 graduate students and post-docs in her own lab and mentored many others. The majority of these trainees have gone on to scientific careers in academia and industry.
Mary has served the broader scientific community and been recognized for her contributions in many ways: 1996-1998 International Society of Neuroendocrinology, President 1997-2002 Editorial Boards Endocrinology, J. Neuroscience, Stress. Molec. Psychiatry. 2003-2007 Receiving Editor Endocrinology; NIH workshops (Perimenopause; drug abuse; Alzheimer’s Disease) and working group (Stress & CVD) 2011-2014 Editorial Board, Endocrinology 1980-2007 Member of 3 NIH PRGs – Endocrinology; NNB; DK Fellowships, K-awards. 2003 ISPNE Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 Muldoon Memorial Lectureship 2007 Selye Lectureship 2010 Marianne Blum Lectureship, Austin TX 2010 Soc Study Ingestive Behavior Distinguished Scientist Award
References
- ^ "Our Team | Next Mission". nextmission.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ^ "Comfort Food May Be "Self-Medication" for Stress, Dialing Down Stress Response". UC San Francisco. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ^ "The Biology of Fat (or Why Literally Running Away from Stress Is a Good Idea)". UC San Francisco. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
- ^ Wood, Charles (28 Nov 2012). "When lab leaders take too much control". Nature. 491: 785. doi:10.1038/nj7426-785a.