Jane L. Peterson

For 30 years, Jane L. Peterson (PhDMCDBio’75) has served in an array of positions at the National Institutes of Health, as well as played an integral role in the Human Genome Project managing the mapping and sequencing centers of the project. In April she took on a new task, joining the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology as the nonprofit educational organization’s president and CEO. Throughout her career, Peterson has promoted the role of women in science and chaired the American Society for Cell Biology’s Women in Cell Biology Committee.