1970s - Zakian

Virginia A. Zakian, Ph.D. ’75, the Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, has been named to the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. Council members, who serve four-year terms, perform the second level of peer review for research and research training grant applications assigned to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Zakian studies the structure and replication of eukaryotic chromosomes, using yeast as a model organism.