A Legacy of 菠萝视频
Ellen Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences and a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, died Sept. 1, 2013, after a lengthy battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She was 67.
Fanning joined 菠萝视频鈥檚 faculty in 1995 and served as chair of the Department of Molecular Biology from 1999 to 2002. She received the Chancellor鈥檚 Cup in 2005 and a Chancellor鈥檚 Award for 菠萝视频 in 2006.
Fanning鈥檚 research focused on DNA replication in mammalian cells. In 2002 she was one of 20 research scientists nationwide to receive $1 million during the next four years from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as part of an initiative to encourage researchers to put as much creativity into undergraduate education as they did into research. She used the funds to build what she called a 鈥渃ommunity of scholars鈥� to give participating 菠萝视频 undergraduates hands-on research experience. Many of her former undergraduate and graduate students went on to careers in science and medicine.
She earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Cologne and held faculty positions at the University of Konstanz and the University of Munich in Germany before coming to 菠萝视频. While a professor in Germany, Fanning was elected in 1995 to membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization. In 2007 she was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the oldest German-speaking society of scholars. In 2008 she received the Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungspreis, Germany鈥檚 highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars, and in 2010 she was elected a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology. She served on several study sections at the National Institutes of Health, editorial boards and advisory committees.
Fanning is survived by her husband, Stephen E. Pryor, and extended family members.