Cornelia Bargmann
| Cornelia Bargmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cornelia Isabella Bargmann January 1, 1961 (age 56) Virginia |
| Fields | Biochemistry, Cancer Biology |
| Institutions | Rockefeller University |
| Alma mater | University of Georgia, M.I.T. |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Weinberg |
| Other academic advisors | H. Robert Horvitz |
| Known for | Olfaction research |
| Spouse | Richard Axel |
Cornelia Isabella "Cori" Bargmann (born 1961) is an American neurobiologist. She is known for her work on the behavior in the C. elegans, particularly olfaction in the worm. Studying the C. elegans is allowing Bargmann to uncover how neurons and genes affect behavior. Knowing that many of the gene mechanisms in roundworms mimic those of mammals, she is able to manipulate certain genes and observe how that affects changes in behavior. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and had been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF and then Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2016. It was announced on September 21, 2016 that she had been named the incoming president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, effective October 1, 2016. In 2012 she was awarded the $1 million Kavli Prize, and in 2013 the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Bargmann was born in Virginia and grew up in Athens, Georgia, one of four children, and the daughter of Rolf Bargmann, a statistician and computer scientist at the University of Georgia.
She completed undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia in 1981, with a degree in biochemistry. She completed graduate school from M.I.T with a PH.D in the department of Biology in 1987 in the lab of Robert Weinberg. She examined the molecular mechanisms of oncogenesis, and helped identify the role of Ras in bladder cancer. She also did significant work on neu, an oncogene that later lead to significant treatments in breast cancer.
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