The Changing Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT: 1999 - 2019
Nancy Hopkins, Professor of Biology emerita
Chipman Room, 6-104
Nancy Hopkins is the Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied viruses that cause cancer in mice and later developed the zebrafish model to identify genes required for early development and genes that predispose fish to cancer.
Hopkins chaired a Committee that issued the 1999 Report on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT. Later she Co-Chaired the First Council on Faculty Diversity with then-Provost Brown during the Vest administration.
Hopkins is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.