[4] Her research interests focus on "methods for measuring DNA repair capacity (DRC) in human cells", research the National Institute of Health recognized as pioneering in her field, for which the NIH granted her the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award.

[2] She did five years of postdoctoral research at UCSF and UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1983.

"[7] Since 2007 she has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "the world's largest general scientific society".

[1] This work is also applicable to environmental exposures to alkylating agents in the food we eat, the fluids we drink and the air we breath.

"[15] This paper finds that the transcription and repair of certain genes in the yeast are regulated by the proteasome-associated protein Rpn4.