Background
Slayman, Carolyn Walch was born on March 11, 1937 in Portland, Maine, United States. Daughter of John Weston and Ruth Dyer (Sanborn) Walch.
Slayman, Carolyn Walch was born on March 11, 1937 in Portland, Maine, United States. Daughter of John Weston and Ruth Dyer (Sanborn) Walch.
Bachelor with highest honors, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Rockefeller University, New York City, 1963. Doctor of Science (honorary), Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1985.
Instructor, then assistant professor, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1967;
from assistant professor to professor genetics, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, since 1967;
Sterling professor genetics, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, since 1991;
department chairman genetics, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1984-1995;
deputy dean academy and science affairs, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, since 1995. Chairman genetic basis of disease review commission National Institutes of Health, 1981-1985, national advisory general medical science county, 1989-1993. Board directors J. Weston Walch Public, Portland, Maine, Perkin-Elmer Corporation.
Member science review board Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1992-1997.
Trustee Foote School, New Haven, 1983—1989, Hopkins School, New Haven, 1988—1993. Board overseers Dartmouth Medical School, 1997—2003, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1997—2007, Bowdoin College, 1976—1988, trustee, 1988—2001. Member American Society Biological Chemists, Genetics Society of America, Society General Physiologists, American Society Microbiology, Institute Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Clifford L. Slayman. Children: Andrew, Rachel.