Shapiro receives Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

The annual award celebrates the achievements of women in science.

Lucy Shapiro, center, displays the prize, which was presented to her by technology entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley, left. At right, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Rockefeller University.
Scott Rudd

Developmental biologist Lucy Shapiro, PhD, the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor at the medical school, received the 2014 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, which celebrates the achievements of outstanding women in biomedical research, on Nov. 11 at Rockefeller University. In a Q&A with Shapiro posted that day on the blog Scope, she discusses her thoughts on being a woman in science and how she felt about receiving the prize.

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