Biography
Although expected to become a housewife by her parents, Lindquist studied microbiology at the University of Illinois as an undergraduate and received her PhD in biology from Harvard in 1976. She was the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and the Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 2001-2004. She is currently a member of the Whitehead Institute, a professor of biology at MIT, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Lindquist is married to Edward Buckbee and has two adult daughters, one of whom is an alumna of Northwestern University.
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