Fedoroff, whose father was a Russian immigrant to the US and her mother a first generation immigrant, was born in
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After graduating from Rockefeller University in 1972 she joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she did research into nuclear RNA. She moved in 1978 to the Carnegie Institution for Science in … See more

In 1995, Fedoroff arrived at Pennsylvania State University as the Verne M. Willaman professor of Life Sciences and founded and directed the organization now known as the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. In 2002, she … See more

In 1990, Fedoroff was honored with the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award from University of Chicago, and in 1992 she received the New York Academy of Sciences Outstanding Contemporary Women Sci… See more

Fedoroff has three children and seven grandchildren. She enjoys music, theatre and singing. Fedoroff was a single mother, and although she was studying and trying to make a living, she was able to raise two of her thre… See more

• Fedoroff, Nina (1992). The dynamic genome : Barbara McClintock's ideas in the Century of Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
• Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Geneticall… See more