Background
Donella Joyce was born on July 28, 1951 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Paul Lawrence and Emily Frenchie (Bailey) Wilson.
Donella Joyce was born on July 28, 1951 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Paul Lawrence and Emily Frenchie (Bailey) Wilson.
Donella studied at Texas Southern. In 1977 she became a Master of Science in immunogenetics. In four years she was a student of Purdue University. She became a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biology.
Donella worked as a research assistant at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States from 1977 to 1981. In this year she became a research associate at the University of Washington. In two years she was a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She worked there for two years. From 1981 to 1983 Donella was postdoctorate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, United States, and from 1983 to 1985 she was postdoctorate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
In 1985 she was an assistant professor of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. She worked there until 1991. In this year she became an associate professor of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. She worked there until 1995. Since 1993 Donella worked as a scientific program director of the American Cancer Society. In 1986 she became a visiting scientist of the Federal American Society for Experimental Biology in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. In a year she was a grant reviewer of the National Science Foundation in Washington, United States. Since 1988 she was a site and grant reviewer of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.