Dr. Susan Liebman

Susan Liebman received her B.S. in life sciences in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.A. in biophysics from Harvard University and a PhD at the University of Rochester (1974). Liebman's dissertation was directed by Dr. Fred Sherman, and she continued to work with him as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Liebman began her laboratory at the University of Ilinois in Chicago (UIC) and is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus there. She is also a Research Profess in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research uses the simple eukaryote, yeast. She has studied the retrotansposable element Ty1, translational accuracy, ribosomal RNA, ribosomal proteins, translational factors, and prions. In recent years her laboratory has concentrated on studying human disease proteins that form prion like aggregates. Dr. Liebman is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health “Maximizing Investigators' Research Award.” She is the author of, The Dressmaker’s Mirror: Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family’s Secret, in production by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, expected Fall 2024. Susan Liebman was born in New York City in 1947 (nee Susan Harriet Weiss). She married Alan Liebman in 1969 and has two children.