Steiner Lisa Amalia
BakteriologinBiochemikerinMedizinerin
Geb. 12.5.1933 in Wien
Gest. in
Herkunft, Verwandtschaften
Vater: Herman Steiner; Mutter: Stella, geb. Hornik.
Ausbildungen
1954 B.A. in Mathematik am Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, 1956 M.A. in Mathematik am Radcliff College, Cambridge; 1959 M.D. an der Yale University, New Haven.
Laufbahn
Bis 1960 an der Yale University School of Medicine in der Sektion Dermatologie, 1962 Forschung über Protein Chemistry am Department of Biophysics am Weizmann Institut, Rehovoth in Israel; 1962-65 Studien in Immunologie an der Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, St. Louis; 1965-67 Forschungen über Immunoglobulins am Wright Fleming Institute, Department of Immunology in London; danach am Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, 1970 dort Associate Professor, ab 1980 als Professorin; Vorsitzende diverser Komittees im Board of Trustees der Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, Mitherausgeberin von Fachzeitschriften. Ausz., Mitglsch.: Auszeichnungen des National Institute of Health, der American Association for the Advancement of Science; Mitglied der American Association of Immunologists, der American Association of Biological Chemists, der American Cancer Society sowie des Israel Cancer Resarch Fund. W. u. a.: „With H. N. Eisen: Sequential changes in the relative affinity of antibodies synthesized during the immune response. In: Journal of Exp. Med.“ (1967), „With R. R. Porter: The interchain disulfide bonds of a human pathological immunoglobulin. In: Biochemistry“ (1967), „Immunoglobulins in Rapid Frogs and Tadpoles. In: Advanced Exp. Med. and Biol.“ (1975), „The Crystallizable Human Myelom Protein Dob has a Hinge-Region Deletion. In: Biochemistry“ (1979), „With B. W. Elliott/H. N. Eisen: Unusual association of V, J, and C regions in a mouse immunoglobulin … chain. In: Nature“ (1982), „With C. A. Mikoryak: Noncovalent association of heavy and light chains in Rana catesbeiana immunoglobulins. In: J. Immunol.“ (1984), „With J. Schwager/C. A. Mikoryak: Amino acid sequence of heavy chain from Xenopus laevis IgM deduced from cDNA sequence: Implications for evolution of immunoglobulin domains. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.“ (1988), „With F. S. Rosen/E. R. Unanue: McMillan Dictionary of Immunology“ (1989), „With L. S. Reidl/C. M. Kinoshita: Wild mice express an immunoglobulin V.. gene that differs from any V. in BALB/c but resembles a human V. subgroup. In: J. Immunol.“ (1992)Literatur
Ingrisch 2002, ÖNB 2002, Röder 1980-1983