Prof. Nancy Bonini University of Pennsylvania and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

Nancy M. Bonini is the Lucille B. Williams Term Professor of Biology and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received her undergraduate training at Princeton University, her PhD in neurosciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. She joined the faculty... read moreat the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, where she pioneered the development of the model organism Drosophila as a system for studying human late-onset neurodegenerative diseases.