Editing Susan Lindquist (section)

== Career ==
Upon completing her dissertation in 1976, Lindquist moved to the [[University of Chicago]] for a short post-doc before being hired as a faculty member in the Biology Department in 1978,<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Fuchs|first=Elaine|date=December 2016|title=Susan Lee Lindquist (1949–2016)|journal=Cell|language=en|volume=167|issue=6|pages=1440–1442|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.030|pmid=29413691|bibcode=2016Natur.540...40S|issn=0092-8674|doi-access=free}}</ref> becoming the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences with the founding of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology in 1980.<ref name=":5" /> At the University of Chicago Lindquist investigated the role of [[heat shock protein]]s in regulating the cellular response to environmental stresses. Lindquist pioneered the use of [[Saccharomyces cerevisiae|yeast]] as a model system to study how heat shock proteins regulate gene expression and protein folding. For this work, Lindquist was made an investigator for the [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]] in 1988.<ref name=":1" /> After making important new discoveries to [[Prion proteins|prions]], Lindquist moved to [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in 2001 and was appointed as Director of the [[Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research]], one of the first women in the nation to lead a major independent research organization.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/lindquist_bio.html|title=Susan Lindquist, PhD|website=HHMI.org|access-date=October 30, 2016}}</ref>

In 2004, Lindquist resumed research as an Institute Member, an associate member of the [[Broad Institute]] of MIT and [[Harvard]], and an associate member of the [[David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research]] at MIT.<ref name=":4" />

Lindquist was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2009 (presented in 2010), for research contributions to protein folding.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=5300000000465|title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details {{!}} NSF – National Science Foundation|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=August 7, 2018}}</ref>

Lindquist lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of scientific topics.  In June 2006, she was the inaugural guest on the "Futures in Biotech" podcast on [[Leo Laporte]]'s [[TWiT]] network.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twit.tv/shows/futures-in-biotech/episodes/1|title=Futures in Biotech 1 Dr. Susan Lindquist {{!}} TWiT.TV|website=TWiT.tv|access-date=October 31, 2016}}</ref> In 2007, she participated in the [[World Economic Forum]] in Davos, Switzerland with other MIT leaders.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/196/sheffi.html|title=MIT and the World Economic Forum|author=Yossi Sheffi|website=mit.edu|access-date=October 30, 2016}}</ref>

Lindquist also co-founded two companies to translate research into potential therapies, FoldRx and Yumanity Therapeutics (with [[N. Anthony Coles]]),<ref name=carroll>Carroll, John. UPDATED: Onyx vet Tony Coles embarks on a new biotech adventure. Fierce BioTech. December 15, 2014. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/updated-onyx-vet-tony-coles-embarks-on-a-new-biotech-adventure</ref> companies developing drug therapies for diseases of protein misfolding and amyloidosis.<ref name="Scientific Founders – FoldRx">{{Cite web|url=http://www.foldrx.com/about-scientific.htm|title=Scientific Founders – FoldRx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711014625/http://www.foldrx.com/about-scientific.htm|archive-date=July 11, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=October 31, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Yumanity Therapeutics">{{Cite web|url=http://www.yumanity.com/|title=Yumanity Therapeutics|website=www.yumanity.com|access-date=July 2, 2017}}</ref>

In November 2016, [[Johnson & Johnson]] gave a $5 million gift to Whitehead Institute to establish the Susan Lindquist Chair for Women in Science in Lindquist's memory. The gift will be awarded to a female scientist at Whitehead Institute.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/11/16/hill-holliday-advertising-industry-face-bold-reinvention/LAQEMt3NJ2b3omlfIEKqcM/story.html|title=A chair at MIT in Lindquist's memory|last1=WEISMAN|first1=ROBERT|date=November 17, 2016|work=Boston Globe|access-date=September 21, 2017}}</ref>