Lynne E Maquat

Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, Ph.D., is an American biochemist and molecular biologist whose research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of human disease. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences and currently holds the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and is Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and of Oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Professor Maquat is also Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology and Founding Chair of Graduate Women in Science at the University of Rochester.

Maquat graduated with a BS degree in Cell Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. She did post-doctoral work at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. She has been published in more than 110 peer-reviewed journals and edited numerous books. Maquat was the 2012 Batsheva de Rothschild Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She has received numerous awards, including the 2014 William C. Rose Award, the 2015 Canada Gairdner International Award and the 2018 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Excellence in Science Award.