Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon
Angelika Amon
	Amon in October 2017
Born	January 10, 1967; Vienna, Austria
Died	October 29, 2020 (aged 53)
Citizenship	Austria & United States
Alma mater	University of Vienna B.S., Ph.D.(1993);
Known for	Chromosome duplication and cell division
Awards	1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; 2003 Alan T. Waterman Award; 2003 Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award; 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research (shared with Todd Golub and Gregory Hannon); 2008 NAS Award in Molecular Biology; 2013 Ernst Jung Prize; 2018 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science; 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; 2019 Vilcek Prize; 2020 HFSP Nakasone Award;
	Scientific career
Institutions	Whitehead Institute (1994–1999); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999–2020); Research Institute of Molecular Pathology;
Doctoral advisor	Kim Nasmyth

Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Amon's research centered on how chromosomes are regulated, duplicated, and partitioned in the cell cycle. Amon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

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