Title:

Director, Lab of Cell Biology

Affiliation:

Italian National Research Council

Rome,   Italy

Gender:

Female

Year Deceased:

2012

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

1987

Citation:

"For a major breakthrough in neurobiology by her discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor and its effect on the growth of the sympathetic nervous system which set the stage for worldwide studies of the molecules involved in normal and malignant growth."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.

Nobel Laureate:

Physiology or Medicine, 1986