Joan A. Steitz

Joan Steitz
Joan Steitz
Born	Joan Elaine Argetsinger; January 26, 1941; Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Alma mater	Antioch College (BS); Harvard University (PhD);
Known for	discovery of sites, sequences, and mechanism for mRNA binding to ribosomes; first discovery of RNAs not directly involved in protein assembly; discovery of snRNPs and their role in splicing eukaryotic mRNAs out of longer transcripts;
Spouse	Thomas Steitz
Children	1
Awards	NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1982); National Medal of Science (1986); Max Delbrück Medal (2000); Gairdner Foundation International Award (2006); Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (2012); Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2014); Wolf Prize in Medicine (2021);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry; Molecular biology;
Institutions	Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Yale University;
Thesis	Studies of the R17A protein (1968)
Doctoral advisor	James D. Watson
Doctoral students	Sandra Wolin, Gia Voeltz
Website	medicine.yale.edu/lab/steitz; www.hhmi.org/scientists/joan-steitz;

Joan Elaine Argetsinger Steitz (born January 26, 1941) is Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is known for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights into how ribosomes interact with messenger RNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by small nuclear ribonucleic proteins (snRNPs), which occur in eukaryotes. In September 2018, Steitz won the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. The Lasker award is often referred to as the 'American Nobel' because 87 of the former recipients have gone on to win Nobel prizes.

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