Elizabeth Ann Jonas is an American physician and neuroscientist at the

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary te ...

where she is Professor of endocrinology and neuroscience. Her seminal work includes the first ''in vivo'' electrical recordings of mitochrondrial membrane potentials and influential research on metabolic pathways of neuronal death.

Career and research

An alumna of the Fieldston School, Jonas graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1982 and received her medical degree from

New York University School of Medicine NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, with the other being the Long Island School of ...

in 1986. As an undergraduate, she studied under the neuroscientist

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at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. She returned to the laborartory as a post-doctoral fellow of Len Kaczmarek where her work on the

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constituted the first ever direct electrical recordings of mitochondrial membrane potentials ''in vivo.'' Her work since has built upon this technique to describe the

mitochondrial permeability transition pore The mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP or MPTP; also referred to as PTP, mTP or MTP) is a protein that is formed in the inner membrane of the mitochondria under certain pathological conditions such as traumatic brain injury and stroke ...

and its influence on neurological disease. Jonas is appointed as Professor of Endocrinology within the Departments of Internal Medicine and Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine. She also serves as the school's co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in Medicine and has been outspoken in her support for gender equality in medicine.

Awards and honors

* National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award (2013, 2021) * Association of American Physicians (2022)

References

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