Title:

Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stubbe Group, Room 18-598

Cambridge,Massachusetts 02139 USA

Gender:

Female

Award Discipline:

Chemistry

Award Year:

2008

Citation:

"For her ground-breaking experiments establishing the mechanisms of ribonucleotide reductases, polyester synthases, and natural product DNA cleavers  compelling demonstrations of the power of chemical investigations to solve problems in biology."

Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on October 7, 2009.