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HOLFORD, Mande
Assistant Professor, The City University of New York
Mande Holford is as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Hunter College and CUNY-Graduate Center, with a scientific appointment at the American Museum of Natural History. Her dual appointment reflects her interdisciplinary research, which combines chemistry and biology to discover, characterize, and deliver novel neuropeptides from venomous marine snails to manipulate cell signaling in the nervous system. She's received funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her independent research. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. In 2011 she was awarded an NSF CAREER Award, and named a 21st Century Chemist in the NBC-Learn, Chemistry Now series. She is an inaugural member of the World Academy of Young Scientist (WAYS). She served on the Advisory Committee for Term Members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her PhD is from The Rockefeller University.