Susan E. Mango is an American biologist, the former H.A. and Edna Benning Professor of Oncological Sciences at the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

, and former professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. She is Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and research group leader at Biozentrum University of Basel Mango graduated from

, and from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

with a Ph.D. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Judith Kimble at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

. She and her team are currently studying the cells of the worm ''

C. elegans ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (r ...

'' to observe how a cell transforms from a

pluripotent Pluripotency: These are the cells that can generate into any of the three Germ layers which imply Endodermal, Mesodermal, and Ectodermal cells except tissues like the placenta. According to Latin terms, Pluripotentia means the ability for many thin ...

state into a particular cell type. Her articles have been published in ''Nature'', ''Science'', ''Cell'', and ''PLoS Biology''.

Awards

*2008 MacArthur Fellows Program *2019 Elected member of the

European Molecular Biology Organization The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is a professional, non-profit organization of more than 1,800 life scientists. Its goal is to promote research in life science and enable international exchange between scientists. It co-funds cour ...

(EMBO)

References

External links

Research group website"Susan Mango", ''Faculty of 1000''
''MCB News'', Cathryn Delude {{DEFAULTSORT:Mango, Susan 21st-century American biologists Biozentrum University of Basel MacArthur Fellows Harvard University alumni Princeton University alumni University of Utah faculty Harvard University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people)