Nancy Bonini

Who is this?

Nancy M. Bonini (born 1959) is an American neuroscientist and geneticist, best known for pioneering the use of Drosophila as a model organism to study neurodegeneration of the human brain. Using the Drosophila model approach, Bonini's laboratory has identified genes and pathways that are important in the development and progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's Disease), Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, as well as aging, neural injury and regeneration, and response to environmental toxins. A professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1994, Bonini has held appointments as the inaugural Lucille B. Williams Term Professor of Biology (2006–2012), an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2000–2013), and the Florence RC Murray Professor of Biology (since 2012). She was editor of the Annual Review of Genetics from 2018-2021.

Career

1. 1959
   Born
2. 1997
   Won Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
3. 2011
   Won Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
4. 2022
   Won John Scott Award
5. Member of National Academy of Medicine
6. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
7. Member of National Academy of Sciences

Trivia

• •Known as: neuroscientist, geneticist