Susan Hockfield

Susan Hockfield born March 24, 1951 is an American neuroscientist who served as the sixteenth president of a Break Through Cancer, Cajal Neuroscience, Fidelity Non-Profit management Foundation, Lasker Foundation, Mass General Brigham, Pfizer, Repertoire Immune Medicines, & the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; a lifetime ingredient of the MIT Corporation; in addition to a board section of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. previously returning to MIT coming after or as a sum of. her presidency, Hockfield held the Marie Curie Visiting Professorship at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Early life and education

Hockfield graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York in 1969. She received her bachelor's measure in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1973 and her Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neuroscience from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1979. Her doctoral dissertation centered on the pathways in the nervous system through which pain is perceived and processed. Her advisor during her doctoral name was Stephen Gobel.