Joan A. Steitz - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	26-January-1941
Place of Birth	Minneapolis (Minnesota, United States of America, Area code 218, Area code 612)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Joan Steitz
Joan Argetsinger Steitz is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins which occur in eukaryotes.

Awards by Joan A. Steitz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joan A. Steitz.

2006

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For her discovery of the reactivity of autoimmune sera with ribonucleoprotein particles and elucidation of the roles of small nuclear RNAs in messenger RNA processing.)

2005

E. B. Wilson Medal

2001

L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science

1986

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For her major contributions to the basic molecular biology of bacterial and mammalian cells. Her discovery of at least six new components of the cellular machinery is an accomplishment of great distinction in both basic molecular biology and in the clinical treatment of autoimmune disease.)

1982

NAS Award in Molecular Biology	(For contributing to our understanding of how RNA molecules are recognized by enzymes and discovering the roles played by small ribonucleoprotein molecules in RNA processing.)

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