Cynthia Wolberger
{{short description|American structural biologist}}
Cynthia Wolberger is an American structural biologist currently at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{Cite web |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellow/wolberger-cynthia |title=Cynthia Wolberger at AAAS |accessdate=April 25, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426064145/https://www.aaas.org/fellow/wolberger-cynthia|archive-date=2017-04-26|website=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}{{Cite web |url=http://wolberger.med.jhmi.edu/ |title=Wolberger Lab Homepage|accessdate=April 25, 2017|website=Wolberger Lab}} On April 19, 2019, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Science among 100 new members and 25 foreign associates.{{Cite web|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/04/30/national-academy-sciences-kamionkowski-moffitt-wolberger/|title=Three Johns Hopkins researchers named to National Academy of Sciences|last=Hub staff|date=2019-04-30|website=The Hub|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}} She received her undergraduate degree in Physics from Cornell University in 1979 and her Ph.D. in Biophysics at Harvard University in 1987.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/institute_basic_biomedical_sciences/research_centers/high_throughput_biology_hit/technology_center_networks_pathways/pdfs/Wolberger_NIH_Biosketch_9-08.pdf|title=Biographical Sketch of Cynthia Wilberger|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518030639/https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/institute_basic_biomedical_sciences/research_centers/high_throughput_biology_hit/technology_center_networks_pathways/pdfs/Wolberger_NIH_Biosketch_9-08.pdf|archive-date=2019-05-18|website=Johns Hopkins Medicine}} She completed postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco (1987-1989) and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (1989-1991). Her research concentrations include structural biology, ubiquitin signaling, and transcription regulation.{{Cite web|url=http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/people/cynthia-wolberger/|title=Cynthia Wolberger – Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-17|website=Johns Hopkins University Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry}} Significant progress has been made by Wolberger in understanding the structural biology of gene and protein control.{{Cite web |title=Cynthia Wolberger, PhD {{!}} Investigator Emeriti Profile {{!}} 1994-2014 |url=https://www.hhmi.org/scientists/cynthia-wolberger |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=www.hhmi.org |language=en}}
Honors and awards
- AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research (2021){{Cite web |title=AACR Announces Recipients of its 2021 Scientific Achievement Awards and Lectureships |url=https://www.aacr.org/about-the-aacr/newsroom/news-releases/aacr-announces-recipients-of-its-2021-scientific-achievement-awards-and-lectureships/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) |language=en}}
- National Academy of Medicine (2021)
- National Academy of Sciences (2019)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow (2019). {{Cite web|url=https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx|title=2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election |website=members.amacad.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302174101/https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx|archive-date=2020-03-02}}
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, Protein Society (2013){{cite web|url=http://www.proteinsociety.org/page/protein-society-awards |title=Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award of the Protein Society|website=The Protein Society}}
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (1994 - 2014){{Cite web|url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/Seven_Johns_Hopkins_Researchers_Named_AAAS_Fellows|title=Seven Johns Hopkins Researchers Named AAAS Fellows|website=www.hopkinsmedicine.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-17}}
- Junior Faculty Award, American Cancer Society (1993 - 1994)
- David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (1992 - 1997){{Cite web|url=https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/wolberger-cynthia/|title=Wolberger, Cynthia|website=The David and Lucile Packard Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-17}}
- Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award, March of Dimes (1992 - 1994){{Cite web|url=https://medicine.umich.edu/sites/default/files/content/downloads/Newsletter2016.pdf|title=News & Review 2016 of Biological Chemistry University of Michigan|website=Michigan Medicine|access-date=2019-05-17|archive-date=2019-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517202807/https://medicine.umich.edu/sites/default/files/content/downloads/Newsletter2016.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- Damon Runyun - Fund Fellow, Walter Winchell Cancer Research (1987 - 1990){{Cite web|url=https://www.damonrunyon.org/sites/default/files/Awardees%201980.pdf|title=Damon Runyun Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship Awardee 1980s|website=Damon Runyun Cancer Research Foundation}}
- A.B. cum laude in Physics and With Distinction in all subjects (1979)
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