Background
Fink was born in State Center, Iowa on February 13, 1917.
biochemist Dean Professor of Medicine
Fink was born in State Center, Iowa on February 13, 1917.
Fink spent most of her career at the University of California, Los Angeles, often collaborating with her fellow biochemist husband Robert Morgan Fink, and was the first Doctor of Philosophy to become a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. She received her bachelor"s degree in biochemistry from the State University of Iowa in 1938 She received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1943, where she met her husband and longtime scientific collaborator Robert Morgan Fink.
She died of cancer in 1989. Her early career was supported by a fellowship from the National Research Council related to the Manhattan Project, which she held until 1947, working with Stafford Warren. Warren recruited the Finks to University of California, Los Angeles when he became the dean of the then-new School of Medicine there.
Fink began at University of California, Los Angeles in 1947, with additional temporary appointments at Veterans" Administration hospitals due to the relative lack of research facilities available at the new medical school.
She was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine in 1967, the first Doctor of Philosophy to hold that position traditionally occupied by those with Doctor of Medicine degrees. In 1976, Fink became an Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Chairman of the Scholarships and Fellowships Committee at University of California, Los Los Angeles
Fink was a member of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine and the American Society of Biological Chemists.