Awards

National Academies - 1982

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About Anthony Mahowald

Anthony Mahowald was born on November 24, 1932 in Albany, Minnesota. He earned his B.S. from Spring Hill College in 1958 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1962. He worked at Marquette University and the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia before joining the faculty at IU Bloomington from 1972 to 1982. From 1982 to 1990, he taught at Case Western Reserve University and from 1990 until his retirement in 2002, he was chairperson of the department of molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the NSF, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society of Scholars at Johns Hopkins University, and National Academy of Science. He was a member of the Genetics Society of America, the Society of Developmental Biology, and the American Society of Cell Biology. His research studied the genetic control of key developmental events during oogenesis using Drosophila melanogaster. His lab demonstrated that the yolk receptor, coded for by yolkless, belongs to the same gene family as the human LDL-R gene. Yolkless is expressed unusually early in the germarium and appears to be under functional control of juvenile hormone. His lab analyzed the transcription control region and possible mechanisms for hormonal control of yolk uptake.