Dudley, Jaquelin
Biography
Dr. Jaquelin Dudley is a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her undergraduate work at West Virginia University and received her PhD from Baylor College of Medicine. She conducted her post-doctoral work at the University of California San Francisco and the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Dudley received her Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from West Virginia in 1973 and received her PhD in Virology from Baylor College of Medicine in 1978. She then took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco at the Cancer Research Institute in 1978 and a post-doctoral fellowship position at the University of Wisconsin at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in 1980.
In 1983, Dr. Dudley became a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin. She established the Dudley laboratory which primarily studies oncology and immunology, focusing on developing more specific and less toxic treatments for human breast cancer.
Dr. Dudley has also been a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, the State of Louisiana Health Excellence Fund, the NSF Eukaryotic Genetics Review Panel, and the U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Program. She has also served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Nucleic Acids Research, and Journal of Mammary Gland and Biology and Neoplasia.
Dr. Dudley has received several awards for her work including the Sigma Chi Award for best PhD Thesis in 1979, being an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus in 1978, a Cancer Research Institute Inc. Fellowship in 1981, and inclusion in the Esquire Magazine Register of “Outstanding Americans Under Age 40” in 1984.