Mary-Dell Chilton earns World Food Prize for pioneering plant genetics research at WUSTL
Mary-Dell Chilton, PhD, who did pioneering work on plant genetics while on the biology faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has been named a co-recipient of the 2013 World Food Prize, an honor often described as the “Nobel Prize of Biotechnology.”
A ‘proud moment’ in WUSTL history
Photo by Mary ButkusThe naming of Barbara Schaal, Ph.D., as the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences honors two of WUSTL’s pioneering women biologists, said Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.