Virginia Wood Cornish is the Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University.
[1] Cornish received her BA in chemistry in 1991, working with professor Ronald Breslow.
Her PhD research, on site-specific protein labeling[2] and mutagenesis, was carried out with Peter Schultz.
Cornish was an NSF postdoctoral fellow[3] at MIT with Robert T. Sauer.
[4] Cornish and her lab group use the tools of systems biology, synthetic biology, and DNA encoding to produce desired chemical products from specific organismic hosts.