Megan King
Professor of Cell Biology; Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology, Yale School of Medicine
Elected to the Academy in 2026
Education
Brandeis University, BA, Biochemistry; The University of Pennsylvania, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Professional Areas
Nuclear cell biology, nuclear mechanics, mechanotransduction, nuclear transport, genome organization, epigenetics, chromatin biology, chromatin dynamics, DNA repair, telomere biology, homologous recombination, genome integrity.
Citation
For broad contributions to the field of nuclear cell biology that combine biophysical and cell biological approaches, which have revealed fundamental mechanisms underlying nuclear mechanotransduction, genome organization and dynamics, and genome integrity.