Margaret L. Kripke Legend Award
For Promotion of Women in Cancer Medicine and Cancer Science
2012 Recipient of the Margaret L. Kripke Legend Award
Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D.
Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy Hopkins is the Amgen, Inc. Professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy. Hopkins obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She joined the MIT faculty in 1974. Her lab has worked in three areas: mechanisms of leukemogenesis by mouse RNA tumor viruses; genetics of early vertebrate development using the zebrafish; and use of the zebrafish as a cancer model. Hopkins became an advocate for women in science after being appointed chair of the first Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Science at MIT in 1995-97. A summary of her committee’s findings was published in 1999 and led to many improvements in the status and number of women faculty at MIT. In 2000 she was appointed to the MIT central administration as co-chair, with then Provost Robert Brown, of the first Council on Faculty Diversity.
Hopkins will receive the award at MD Anderson on Thursday, March 22, at 4:00 p.m. in Onstead Auditorium.
Prior Award Recipients
2011 Recipient:
Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D. (pdf)
President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
2010 Recipient:
Janet Rowley, M.D. (pdf)
Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology,
and of Human Genetics, Section of Hematology/Oncology
University of Chicago Medical Center
2009 Recipient:
Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.) (pdf)
CEO, American Association for Cancer Research
About Margaret L. Kripke
Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., is widely regarded as a trailblazer and role model for women in medical science, academia and executive leadership. She has supported and mentored countless colleagues, employees and trainees throughout her distinguished career. Dr. Kripke continues to serve on the MD Anderson Cancer Center faculty in a reduced-time capacity as special advisor to the provost. Read more about Dr. Kripke... (pdf)
About the Margaret L. Kripke Legend Award
Women Faculty Programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center established this award in 2008 in honor of Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., for her unwavering advocacy for and promotion of women in academic medicine and science.
This national award will be given each year to an individual, male or female, for their ongoing sustained support and extraordinary dedication to enhancing the careers of women in cancer medicine and cancer science.
Candidates for the award will be considered by a committee of internal faculty and external members of the scientific community.
For questions, please contact:
Abby Mitchell, MBA
Project Director
P: 713.792.6142
womenfaculty@mdanderson.org