Lila Gierasch
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Lila Mary Gierasch (born 1948 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American Biochemist and Biophysicist.
Life
Lila M. Gierasch, like her mother Marian Bookhout Gierasch, studied at Mount Holyoke College.[1] She graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor degree in chemistry. She then went to Harvard University as a doctoral student and earned her doctorate in biophysics in 1975. Since 1974 she taught at Amherst College, where she worked as an assistant profressor in Chemistry. She worked under Jean-Marie Lehn at Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg between 1977 and 1978. In 1979 she went to University of Delaware for a position as an assistant professor, and was promoted to a professor in Chemistry in 1985. In 1988 she moved to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and worked as a professor in Pharmacology for six years. She was the chair of Robert A. Welch Professor of Biochemistry.
In Texas she met her husband John Pylant, who she married in 1991.[2] She returned to Massachusetts in 1994, and has been a Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology ever since. She is Head of the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of University of Massachusetts Amherst.[3][4]
References
- ^ Lila Gierasch. Mount Holyoke College. Accessed 28 August 2014.
- ^ JOHN PYLANT LILA GIERASCH, Texas Marriage Record Index, 1966–2008. Mocavo, DC Thomson Family History. Accessed 30 August 2014.
- ^ Biophysicist in Profile: Lila Gierasch. Biophysical Society Newsletter, Januar/Februar 2003. Accessed 26 August 2014.
- ^ Curriculum vitae—Lila M. Gierasch. Gierasch Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Accessed 26 August 2014.
- American biochemists
- American biophysicists
- American women scientists
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Faculty by university or college in Delaware
- University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Mount Holyoke College alumni
- Harvard University alumni