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section of South Brunswick, Squibb graduated from South Brunswick High School. She majored in biochemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1971. Squibb married fellow toxicologist on August 21, 1971. Squibb completed a master's and Ph.D. (1977) in biochemistry at Rutgers University. Her dissertation was titled ''Control of hepatic metallothionein synthesis by zinc and cadmium''. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the

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. In 1984, Squibb joined the New York University Medical Center's Institute of Environmental Medicine. In 1993, she joined the department of medicine at the

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. She worked as the co-director of the University System of Maryland's graduate program in toxicology. Squibb led research on

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"and metabolism elucidated ways in which metals such as cadmium, lead, and depleted uranium target specific organ systems." In the fall of 2015, Squibb received the achievement graduate education award from the University of Maryland's graduate program in life sciences. Squibb had a daughter and son. She died August 18, 2018 in Columbia, Maryland of

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