Primary Job Title Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research & Director, Beckman Center Primary Organization Stanford University
Gender Female
Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D., one of our co-founders, has served as a member of our board since our inception in 2000.
She is also the co-chair of our scientific advisory board. Dr. Shapiro, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and Director of the Beckman Center in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, has been at Stanford
University since 1989.
Dr. Shapiro is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences for her work in the fields of molecular biology and microbiology.
She was elected to the American Philosophical Society and received the Selman Waksman Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
She was a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline from 2001 to 2006 and is on the board of Gen-Probe, Incorporated.
She received a B.S. from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.
