Joanna S. Fowler
| Joanna S. Fowler | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 9, 1942 |
| Fields | nuclear medicine |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Stony Brook University |
| Alma mater |
University of South Florida University of Colorado |
| Notable awards | Garvan–Olin Medal (1998) E. O. Lawrence Award (1998) National Medal of Science (2008) NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2009) |
Joanna S. Fowler is a Scientist Emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. She served as Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of Brookhaven's Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program. Fowler studied the effect of disease, drugs, and aging on the human brain and radiotracers in brain chemistry. She has received many awards for her pioneering work, including the National Medal of Science.
Fowler was born in Miami, Florida and attended the University of South Florida where she received her bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1964. There, she worked in the laboratories of Jack Fernandez. Fowler received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado in 1967 and did her postdoctoral work at the University of East Anglia in England and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Fowler worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1969 until her retirement in January 2014. She is an Emeritus Professor in the Chemistry Department at Stony Brook University.
She is married to Frank Fowler, an Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at Stony Brook University.
Fowler's research has led to new fundamental knowledge, development of important scientific tools, and has broad impacts in the application of nuclear medicine to diagnostics and health. She has worked for much of her career developing radiotracers for brain imaging to understand the mechanisms underlying drug addiction. Most recently, she has been engaged in developing methods to understand the relationship between genes, brain chemistry, and behavior.
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