Anita Hargrave Corbett is an American biochemist who is the Samuel C. Dobbs Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University.

[citation needed] She was an undergraduate student at Colgate University,[3] where she became interested in biochemistry, and studied the activation and inhibition of bovine carbonic anhydrase.

[4] Corbett was a doctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University,[5] where she studied the regulation of topoisomerase II supervised by Neil Osheroff [Wikidata].

[5] Her research investigates the regulation of biological processes, including the import of proteins and export of mRNA.

[8][9] It is well understood that disease is linked to mutations in genes encoding structural RNA exosome subunits.