Jill M. Siegfried is an American pharmacologist. A

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, native, Siegfried attended

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, where she received a double degree in German and molecular biology before earning advanced degrees in pharmacology from

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. Siegfried completed two years of postdoctoral study at the

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prior to joining the faculty of

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. Later, she was named University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Endowed Chair for Lung Cancer Research, a position she left in 2013 to accept an appointment at the

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as Frederick and Alice Stark Professor of Pharmacology.

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