Nira Ben Jonathan

Nira Ben-Jonathan is Emeritus Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She published 180 manuscripts, contributed 12 chapters to textbooks, and wrote a book on Dopamine. She mentored 65 grad students, medical fellows and research scientists. She was awarded the NIH Research Career Development Award, is an Elected Fellow of the AAAS and the Royal Society of Medicine and was Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Prolactin. She received the Rieveschl Award for Outstanding Scientific Research, and the Merker Lectureship in Translational Endocrinology. She served as a member on many committees of the NIH, DOD, and the Komen foundation, and chaired five NIH Study Sections.