Rebecca Voorhees, Ph.D
Rebecca performed her graduate work in Venki Ramakrishnan's lab at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), where she studied the molecular mechanism of protein synthesis using X-ray crystallography. For her postdoctoral studies, Rebecca joined Manu Hegde's lab, just down the hall in the LMB's Cell Biology division. In Manu's lab Rebecca used single particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to study how secreted and integral membrane proteins are specifically targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum.
Rebecca moved to Caltech in July 2017, where she joined the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering. Rebecca's work has been recognized by the Searle Foundation, the Pew-Stewart Scholar's program, the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation, the Heritage Medical Research Institute. In 2019 she was the recipient of an NIH Director's New Innovator's Award and in 2023 she was named one of the 31 inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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