Name: Susan L. Lindquist,, Ph.D.
Title: Member and Former Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biography: Dr. Lindquist was elected to the Board of Directors in 2004 and is a member of
the Science & Technology Advisory Committee and the Public Policy Advisory
Committee. She is a member of the Whitehead Institute, a non-profit, independent
research and educational institution, a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Dr. Lindquist served as Director of the Whitehead Institute from 2001 to 2004.
Previously she was affiliated with the University of Chicago where she was the
Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in the Department of Molecular
Genetics and Cell Biology. Dr. Lindquist was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1996, the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, the
American Philosophical Society in 2003 and the Institute of Medicine in 2006.
She received the Novartis/Drew Award for Biomedical Research in 2000, the
Dickson Prize in Medicine in 2002, the Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for
Academic Achievement in 2006, the Nevada Silver Medal for Scientific
Achievement in 2007, and both the Genetics Society of America Medal and the
Centennial Medal of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
in 2008. She is a member of the Science Advisory Council for the MacArthur
Foundation, the Scientific Advisory Board for the Stowers Institute for Medical
Research and the External Advisory Board of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium.
She is also a Co-Founder of FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a private biotechnology
start-up company.