Laura Landweber, Ph.D.

Landweber is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and of biological sciences at Columbia University. She was previously on the faculty at Princeton University from 1994 to 2016 and a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, where she received her Ph.D. She previously served as president of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. She received an NIH Outstanding Investigator Award, a Guggenheim fellowship and a Blavatnik award for young scientists. She was elected a fellow of the AAAS for probing the diversity of genetic systems in microbial eukaryotes, including scrambled genes, RNA editing, variant genetic codes and comparative genomics.