The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Susan Lee Lindquist
Title:
Professor of Biology
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nine Cambridge Center
Cambridge,Massachusetts 02142 USA
Gender:
Female
Year Deceased:
2016
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
2009
Citation:
"For her studies of protein folding, demonstrating that alternative protein conformations and aggregations can have profound and unexpected biological influences, facilitating insights in fields as wide-ranging as human disease, evolution, and biomaterials."
Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.