Constance Cepko

Connie Cepko
Born Constance Louse Cepko
Laurel, Maryland
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Interactions of the Adenovirus 100k and Hexon Proteins: Analysis using Monoclonal Antibodies and Temperature Sensitive Mutants (1982)
Doctoral advisor Phillip Allen Sharp[1]
Other academic advisors Richard Mulligan[2]
Website

Constance Louise Cepko is a developmental biologist and geneticist in Harvard Medical School.[3][4]

Education

She was born in Laurel, Maryland. She received her B.S. in biochemistry and microbiology at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. at MIT in 1982.[1][5]

Career and research

As a postdoctoral research fellow she studied retroviral vectors that she used to study the development of the retina. She is the former head of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences graduate program at Harvard Medical School.[3][6]

Awards and honors

Cepko was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.[3] In 2011, she received the Bressler Prize in Vision Science awarded to achieved but underecognized scientists and clinicians in their field[7] for her work in retina development.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Phil Sharp's Lab - Alumni". mit.edu. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Cepko, C. L.; Roberts, B. E.; Mulligan, R. C. (1984). "Construction and applications of a highly transmissible murine retrovirus shuttle vector". Cell. 37 (3): 1053–62. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(84)90440-9. PMID 6331674.
  3. 1 2 3 Brownlee, C (2004). "Biography of Constance L Cepko". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (1): 14–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307955100. PMC 314129. PMID 14695892.
  4. ↑ Constance Cepko's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Ricciardi, R. P.; Jones, R. L.; Cepko, C. L.; Sharp, P. A.; Roberts, B. E. (1981). "Expression of early adenovirus genes requires a viral encoded acidic polypeptide". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 78 (10): 6121–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.10.6121. PMC 348989. PMID 6947217.
  6. ↑ "BS Administrative Contacts". Harvard.edu. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Bressler Prize in Vision Science". ighthouseguild.org. Retrieved 1 Nov 2016.
  8. ↑ "Bressler Prize in Vision Science Recipients". ighthouseguild.org. Retrieved 1 Nov 2016.


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