Constance Tom Noguchi
American medical researcher of sickle cell disease
Constance Tom Noguchi (born December 8, 1948) is a research physicist, Chief of the Molecular Cell Biology Section, and Dean of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) Graduate School at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Noguchi studies the underlying genetics, metabolism, and treatment of sickle cell disease and of erythropoietin and its effects on metabolism.
Noguchi has published over 250 scientific articles with over 9491 citations.
Noguchi is one of 21 Asian Americans profiled in Asian American Biographies (1994)
for their contributions to the arts, politics, and science. She is the subject of Scientist and puzzle solver, Constance Tom Noguchi (1985).
Early life and education
Constance Tom was born on December 8, 1948, in Guangzhou (Canton, China) to James Tom and Irene Cheung. Her father was a Chinese-American, and the family soon returned to the United States. Constance Tom grew up in San Francisco, California and married Philip David Noguchi in 1969.
Noguchi studied in mathematics and physics at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her B.Sc. in 1970.
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