Susan Hockfield, American academic administrator, medical educator. Achievements include three patents in field of neuroscience.
Education
Bachelor in Biology, University Rochester, New York, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy in Anatomy & Neurosci., Georgetown U, Washington, 1979. Degree (honorary), University Edinburgh, Scotland.
Degree (honorary), Tsinghua University, China, 2005. Degree (honorary), Mount Sinai School Medicine. Degree (honorary), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Watson School Biological Sciences, New York, 2006.
Degree (honorary), Brown University, Providence, 2006.
Career
National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow University California Department Anatomy and Neurosci., San Francisco, 1979—1980. Junior staff investigator Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1980—1982, senior staff investigator, 1982—1985. Assistant professor neurobiology Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1985—1989, associate professor, 1989—1994, professor neurobiology, 1994—2004.
Dean Yale University Graduate School Arts and Science, 1998—2002. Provost Yale University, 2003—2004. President, professor neuroscience Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, since 2004.
Program director, summer neurobiology program Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1985—1997, board trustees, 1998—2004. Member study section, visual science B National Institutes of Health, 1988—1992, member National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council, 2002—2004. Board director Haskins Laboratory, 1988—2002.
Science advisory board Hereditary Disease Foundation, 1991—1995, 1996—2000. Councilor Society for Neuroscience, 1992—1996. Member neuroscience advisory board Astra Pharmaceuticals, 1997—1999.
Member brain cancer advisory panel James S. McDonnell Foundation, 1997—2002. Chair Gordon Conference on Neural Plasticity, 1997. Member university advisory council Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 1998—2002.
Elected board member Council of Graduate School, 2002. Board directors General Electric Company, since 2006. Class B director National Math and Science Initiative.
Participant, board member various organizations, societies and studies.
Achievements
Works
Other Work
Co-author (with S.Carlson,P.Levitt,E.Evans,L.Silberstien & J. Pintar) Molecular Probes of the Nervous System: Selected Methods for Antibodies and Nucleai Acid Probes. Contributor chapters to books, opinion pieces, articles to professional journals.
Membership
Board member WGBH Educational Foundation, Inc., since 2004, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Board overseers Carnegie Corporation New York. Board trustees Lord Foundation Massachusetts.
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science (member-at-large, Section on Neuroscience since 2000), American Academy Arts & Sciences (fell. 2004); member: Society Neuroscience, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Connections
Married Thomas Byrne. 1 child Elizabeth Hockfield Byrne.
Named William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology, Yale University, 2001. Named one of America's Best Leaders, United States News & World Report, 2009. Recipient Public Health Services Post-doctoral Research award, National Institutes of Health, 1980, Grass Traveling Science award, Society Neurosci., 1987, Charles Judson Herrick award, American Association Anatomists, 1987, Meliora Citation for career achievement, University Rochester, 2004, Wilbur Lucius Cross medal, Yale University, 2004, Golden Plate award, 2005, Amelia Earhart award, Women's Union, 2005.
Grantee Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein fellowship, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, 1985.
Named William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology, Yale University, 2001. Named one of America's Best Leaders, United States News & World Report, 2009. Recipient Public Health Services Post-doctoral Research award, National Institutes of Health, 1980, Grass Traveling Science award, Society Neurosci., 1987, Charles Judson Herrick award, American Association Anatomists, 1987, Meliora Citation for career achievement, University Rochester, 2004, Wilbur Lucius Cross medal, Yale University, 2004, Golden Plate award, 2005, Amelia Earhart award, Women's Union, 2005.
Grantee Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein fellowship, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, 1985.