celebratingamazingwomen:Joan A. Steitz (b. 1941) is a biologist whose research focused on RNA and it

celebratingamazingwomen:

Joan A. Steitz (b. 1941) is a biologist whose research focused on RNA and its interaction with ribosomes, for which she won the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.

She obtained her PhD from Harvard and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge. Her research offered groundbreaking insight into autoimmune diseases, their causes and treatments. She is a Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.