Edna B. Kearney
American molecular biologist
Edna Beatrice Kearney (September 27, 1919 – March 15, 2002) was an American biochemist who worked at UCSF Medical Center and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. A 1951 Guggenheim Fellow alongside her husband Thomas Singer, she researched enzyme chemistry and intermediary metabolisms.
Biography
Edna Beatrice Kearney was born on September 27, 1919, in Nottingham. She emigrated to the United States during her youth and was raised in Michigan, where she attended high school. She was later admitted on a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where she got a BS in 1941 and an MS in 1942. With the help of her laboratory's principal investigator, the future polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, she was able to get into the University of Wisconsin's PhD program, obtaining the degree in 1947. Her doctoral dissertation Nutritional Studies in Neurotropic Virus Diseases was supervised by Paul Franklin Clark.
After originally working as a senior research fellow (1947–1949) at the National Cancer Institute, Kearney joined Western Reserve University in 1949 as a research associate in biochemistry. In 1954, she joined the Henry Ford Hospital's Edsel B. Ford Institute for Medical Research, serving in the biochemistry department from until 1965. After becoming a research chemist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1965, she moved to the San Francisco area in 1967, serving as an associate research pharmacologist at UCSF Medical Center until 1969.
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