Mary-ann Bjornsti BS, PhD

Mary-Ann Bjornsti, Ph.D., is the chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the Newman H. Waters Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, program leader of cancer cell biology and Associate Director for Translational Research for the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Bjornsti earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from New York State University College at Cortland and her doctorate in genetics from the University of Minnesota. She completed a Fogarty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, at the University of Basel in Switzerland before moving to Harvard University for a postdoctoral research fellowship in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology.