Dr. Sarvetnick joined the faculty at The Scripps Research Institute in 1990 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuropharmacology. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994, and in 1996 was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Immunology. In 2000 she became a full Professor in the Department of Immunology. Professor Sarvetnick graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1978 with a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1986, from The State University of New York, Stony Brook. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 1986, and completed her postdoctoral studies in 1990 at Genentech Inc. in the laboratory of Dr. T.A. Stewart. She has over 140 peer reviewed publications and has received a number of awards, which include a Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (1990-1993) and a Multidisciplinary Diabetes Program Project Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (1995-2000). She has also twice been awarded an American Diabetes Association Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Award (1996-2002 and 2005-2009). Her area of expertise is in Immunology and Type 1 Diabetes. |