Marie Celeste Simon is the Arthur H. Rubenstein Professor of cell and developmental biology, the scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, and the associate director of the Abramson Cancer Center Core Facilities, at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Her research focuses on cancer cell metabolism, angiogenesis, and immunology.
She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology from The Rockefeller University in 1985.
[1] She did postdoctoral research with Joseph Nevins at Rockefeller, and with Stuart Orkin at Harvard Medical School.
[2] In 1992, Simon became an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago.