Name Constance Cepko | ||
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Alma mater University of Maryland, College Park
MIT Thesis Interactions of the Adenovirus 100k and Hexon Proteins: Analysis using Monoclonal Antibodies and Temperature Sensitive Mutants (1982) Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, College Park Fields Neuroscience, Developmental biology Similar People Phillip Allen Sharp, Richard J Roberts, James E Darnell, Thomas Cech | ||
Institutions MIT
Harvard University Other academic advisors Richard Mulligan Doctoral advisor Phillip Allen Sharp | ||
Constance Louise Cepko is a developmental biologist and geneticist in Harvard Medical School.
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Education
She was born in Laurel, Maryland. She received her B.S. in biochemistry and microbiology at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. at MIT in 1982.
Career and research
As a postdoctoral research fellow she studied retroviral vectors that she used to study the development of the retina. She is the former head of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences graduate program at Harvard Medical School.
Awards and honors
Cepko was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. In 2011, she received the Bressler Prize in Vision Science awarded to achieved but underecognized scientists and clinicians in their field for her work in retina development.