Lila Mary Gierasch (born 1948 in Needham, Massachusetts) is an American biochemist and biophysicist.
At present, she is a distinguished Professor working on "protein folding in the cell" in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[3] She graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, and earned her doctorate in biophysics from Harvard University in 1975.
[4] In 1974, Gierasch began teaching at Amherst College, where she worked as an assistant professor in chemistry.
[4] Her recent work has utilized computer modeling to analyze how the protein folding process occurs.