Awards

National Academies - 2013

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About Elizabeth C. Raff

Elizabeth Raff is a distinguished professor emerita at Indiana University Bloomington, where she is known for her significant contributions to biology. She earned her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1968. Her research primarily addresses how supra-molecular structures are constructed and how the expression of information encoded in the genome results in functional three-dimensional cellular morphology. She has used Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to study the assembly and function of microtubules, which are essential for many key cellular processes. She has also worked in the evolution of developmental mechanisms and the determination of body form. In 2013, Raff was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.