Shirley Tilghman Born Sept. 17, 1946, Toronto, Ontario Education B.Sc., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1968) Ph.D. in biochemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. (1975) Professional experience 1968-1970 -- Secondary school teacher, Sierra Leone, West Africa 1975-1977 -- Fogarty International Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 1978-1979 -- Assistant Professor, Fels Research Institute, Temple University School of Medicine 1979-1986 -- Member, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pa. 1980-1986 -- Adjunct associate professor of human genetics and biochemistry and biophysics, University of Pennsylvania 1986-present -- The Howard Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, Princeton University 1988-present -- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. HHMI, located in Chevy Chase, Md., relieves exceptional scientists of much of the burden of grant-writing by taking over their salaries, hiring their technical staffs and funding most of their lab expenses 1988-present -- Adjunct professor, Department of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 1993-2000 -- Chair, Council on Science and Technology, Princeton University 1998-present -- Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University Organizations, editorial boards, advisory committees, honors • Foreign associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences • Recipient, President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University • National Advisory Council, National Center for Human Genome Research, 1991-1996 • Current advisory board or board of trustees member of numerous institutions, including Rockefeller University, National Institutes of Health, the Jackson Laboratory and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Sciences of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Member of editorial board of the journal Genes and Development   top		[an error occurred while processing this directive]