Maria Jasin


Maria Jasin is a molecular biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her lab studies homologous recombination, a method in which breaks in DNA strands are repaired. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Career

Jasin received her PhD in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the group of Paul Schimmel, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Zürich and Stanford University.
Jasin is a scientist in the department of developmental biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is also a professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her research has been supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation since 2017.
Jasin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. She was awarded the Basser Global Prize in 2018 and the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences in 2019.