Nationality American Role Biologist Known for Iron deficiency | Doctoral advisor David Balti Name Nancy Andrews | |
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Born November 29, 1958 ( 1958-11-29 ) | ||
Other academic advisors Joan Steitz | ||
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Nancy C. Andrews (born November 29, 1958) is an American biologist noted for her research on iron homeostasis. Andrews was formerly Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine.
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- After the icu nancy andrews at tedxdirigo generate
- Biography
- Personal life
- Significant papers
- Awards
- References
Biography
Andrews grew up in Syracuse, New York. She earned a B.S. and M.S. from Yale University. She began her graduate studies with Joan Steitz at Yale University, studying molecular biophysics and biochemistry, before transferring to work with David Baltimore, earning an M.D.-Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School and M.I.T. (1985). She completed her postdoctoral work with Stuart Orkin at Children's Hospital Boston.
Andrews then joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1991, assuming an endowed chair in 2003, a position at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a position as Dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate Studies at Harvard Medical School. In 2007, Andrews left to take a position as the first female Dean of Medicine at Duke University. In this position, she was the only woman heading any of the top ten medical schools in the U.S.
Andrews studied treatments for and molecular processes governing iron disease, such as anemia (iron deficiency) and hemochromatosis.
Personal life
She is married to fellow biologist Bernard Mathey-Prevot with whom she has two children, Camille and Nicolas. She is the great granddaughter of New York Court of Appeals Judge William Shankland Andrews and Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, and also a direct descendant of Charles Andrews and Frederic Dan Huntington.