Maria Jasin

Maria Jasin
Born1956 (age 68–69)
Detroit, Michigan
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Florida Atlantic University (BSc)
Known forResearch of homologous recombination
AwardsShaw Prize in Life science and medicine
Mendel Lectures
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology
InstitutionsMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cornell University
Stanford University
University of Zurich
ThesisGene deletions and point mutations which define functional domains in alanine tRNA synthetase (1984)
Doctoral advisorPaul Schimmel

Maria Jasin (born 1956) is a developmental biologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is known for studying homologous recombination, a method in which double-strand breaks in DNA strands are repaired, and for discovering the role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in cancers.

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