Monica A. Driscoll PhD

Dr. Driscoll received her A.B. degree in Chemistry from Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1979 and earned a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University in 1985, studying molecular and genetic regulation of gene expression in a yeast model system. She pursued postdoctoral studies in the lab of 2008 Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Martin Chalfie at Columbia University, where she began her work on the simple animal model C. elegans, focusing on deciphering molecular mechanisms of genetically induced neuronal degeneration. She joined the faculty of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1991, and is currently a Distinguished Professor in this department. Her lab now focuses on fundamental problems in the biology of aging and neurodegeneration.