[2] She was elected to the Institute of Medicine and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
Despite originally planning for a career as a medical doctor, she received her PhD in physiological chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1968.
[5] After returning to the United States, she worked as a postdoc at the University of California, San Diego.
[1][2] After a brief postdoc position at UCSD, Taylor joined the faculty there in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1972 and became a full professor in 1985.
[7] The group has subsequently published a number of papers on the dynamics and mechanism of PKA, or cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.