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Dr. Rachel Green, a 25-year faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Green is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and holds a joint research appointment in the Department of Biology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Since 2000, she has worked as an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Her research focuses on the functions of ribosomal cellular structures. The ultra-tiny structures are shaped like hamburgers and move along genetic material called messenger RNA (mRNA). The job of ribosomes is to decode mRNA, which carries instructions for making proteins.
Greene studied how ribosomes sense mRNA damage and activate and modulate quality control and cellular signaling pathways. It establishes new connections between ribosome function and key pathways in human health and disease.
Greene received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Doctor of Biochemistry from Harvard University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and joined Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in 1998.
She has made significant contributions to research, teaching and learning at Johns Hopkins University over the past 25 years. Greene was named Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Teacher of the Year in 2005 and has served as Director of the Graduate School of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) since 2018.
In her own laboratory and through the graduate school she directed, Greene taught and mentored dozens of undergraduate and postdoctoral fellows as part of her commitment to training the next generation of scientists.
Greene was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. Early in her career, she was awarded the prestigious Packard Fellowship and Searle Fellowship.
She has served on the scientific advisory board of Moderna and currently serves on the scientific advisory boards of Alltrna, Initial Therapeutics, and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, as well as providing consulting services to several other biotechnology companies.
Her goals for the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics include strongly supporting the contemporary scientific community in molecular biology and genetics, as well as attracting new and exciting colleagues. She will succeed Dr. Jeremy Nathans, who served as interim director after former director Dr. Carol Greider moved to UC Santa Cruz.
Post time: Aug-31-2024