Joanna Fowler
Joanna Sigfred Fowler | |
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| Born | August 9, 1942 |
| Alma mater | University of South Florida University of Colorado |
| Awards | Garvan–Olin Medal (1998) E. O. Lawrence Award (1998) National Medal of Science (2008) NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | nuclear medicine |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Stony Brook University |
Joanna Sigfred Fowler (born August 9, 1942) 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.