Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon, PhD (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist. She was the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Amon's research focused on how chromosomes are regulated and repeated in the cell cycle. Amon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Amon died of ovarian cancer on October 29, 2020 in Cambridge at the age of 53.

References

Other websites
 MIT Department of Biology homepage
 Amon Lab homepage 
 Koch Institute homepage
 Howard Hughes Medical Institute homepage 
 Angelika Amon Seminar: Consequences of Aneuploidy

Category:1967 births
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Category:Austrian scientists
Category:American biologists
Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States
Category:Scientists from Vienna
Category:Scientists from Massachusetts
Category:People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Category:Deaths from ovarian cancer
Category:Cancer deaths in Massachusetts