Elisa Izaurralde

Elisa Izaurralde
Born(1959-09-20)20 September 1959
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died30 April 2018(2018-04-30) (aged 58)
Tübingen, Germany
Alma mater
Known forRNA transport, RNA metabolism, RNA silencing
AwardsGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2008
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry, molecular biology
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany; EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Doctoral advisorUlrich Laemmli

Elisa Izaurralde (20 September 1959 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 30 April 2018 in Tübingen, Germany) was an Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist. She served as Director and Scientific Member of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen from 2005 until her death in 2018.[1] In 2008, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, shared with Elena Conti, for "fundamental new insights into intracellular RNA transport and RNA metabolism".[2] Together with Conti, she helped characterize proteins important for exporting mRNA out of the nucleus[2] and later in her career she helped elucidate mechanisms of mRNA silencing, translational repression, and mRNA decay.[3]

  1. ^ "Izaurralde, Elisa". mpg.de. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
  2. ^ a b "Leibniz Prizewinners Announced". dfg.de. DFG, German Research Foundation. 2008. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Elisa Izaurralde". eb.tuebingen.mpg.de. Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Retrieved 5 May 2018.