Mary Fenner Dallman (April 11, 1935 – December 21, 2021) was an American neuroendocrinologist and professor emerita at University of California, San Francisco,[1] where she was the first tenure-track female faculty member in the Department of Physiology and worked for 38 years before retiring in 2007.
Dallman received her bachelor's degree in Chemistry[3] from Smith College (1956) and completed her Ph.D. in Physiology at Stanford University in the laboratory of F. Eugene Yates (1967).
Dallman then pursued two post-doctoral training stints, the first in Neuroscience in Stockholm, Sweden with Bengt Andersson and the second at UCSF in Neuroendocrinology with William Francis Ganong.
She is now professor emerita at University of California, San Francisco,[1] where she was the first tenure-track female faculty member in the Department of Physiology and worked for 38 years before retiring in 2007.
She is known for her elucidation of function along the hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal axis, and the discovery that comfort foods dampen the stress response.