The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Lucy Shapiro
Title:
Professor of Developmental Biology and Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine
Affiliation:
Stanford University
279 Campus Drive Beckman Center B300
Stanford,California 94305 USA
Gender:
Female
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
2011
Citation:
"For the pioneering discovery that the bacterial cell is controlled by an integrated genetic circuit functioning in time and space that serves as a systems engineering paradigm underlying cell differentiation and ultimately the generation of diversity in all organisms."
President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.