Carol Prives

PhD McGill University, Canada Rosalind E. Franklin Award for Women in Science, National Cancer Institute (2009) Paul Janssen Prize in Biotechnology and Medicine (2010) Professor Carol L. Prives FRS is the Da Costa Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University.

Prives was educated in Canada, received her BSc and PhD[2] in 1966[3] from McGill University, undertaking research in the lab of Juda Hirsch Quastel.

[4] She pursued postdoctoral fellowships at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Weizmann Institute under the mentorship of Professor Michel Revel.

[6] Her early interest in the SV40 DNA tumour virus as a model for eukaryotic gene expression and oncogenic transformation led her to the study of p53.

Prives has served as chair of the Experimental Virology and the Cell and Molecular Pathology study sections of the National Institutes of Health.