Background
She was born on May 19, 1945, in New New York Her father was trained as an accountant and ran a company that made rotisseries and other small appliances. Her mother was a high school teacher and later became a guidance counselor
She was born on May 19, 1945, in New New York Her father was trained as an accountant and ran a company that made rotisseries and other small appliances. Her mother was a high school teacher and later became a guidance counselor
Doctor Gottesman received a Bachelor of Arts in biochemical sciences, in 1967, from Radcliffe College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in microbiology from Harvard University, in 1972.
She is a pioneer in the area of biological regulation in which enzymes that destroy specific other proteins, called proteases, play a central role inside the cell. In groundbreaking work, she discovered and elucidated the central features of a whole new family of proteases that require energy for their function in the form of Association of Tennis Professionals-hydrolysis. She did her postdoctoral training from 1971 to 1974 in National Cancer Institute"s Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
From 1974 to 1976, she was a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before returning as a senior investigator to National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
Today she is co-chief of that Laboratory and head of its Biochemical Genetics Section.
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) in 2009. American Society of Microbiology"s (American Society for Microbiology) Abbott-American Society for Microbiology time Achievement Award in 2011. Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology in 2015 for a major advance in the field of microbiology.
