MIT World Speakers

Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon has been a faculty member of the Center for Cancer Research since 1999. Previously, she was a Whitehead Institute fellow.

She was born in Austria in 1967, and earned her bachelor's and doctoral degrees at the University of Vienna. She first came to the U.S. in 1994 for postdoctoral studies.

Amon has analyzed the yeast cell cycle as the first step in an effort to unravel the controls that govern cell-cycle progression. In 2003, she received the National Science Foundation's $500,000 Alan T. Waterman Award, NSF's highest honor for young scientists and engineers.