Google has announced that Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University’s President and Professor of Molecular Biology, was unanimously elected to join Google’s Board of Directors.


Shirley M. Tilghman, President and Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University has joined Google’s Board of Directors. Google Board unanimously elected her to join their ranks due to her reputation as a pioneer in academic research.

Google’s Board of Directors include people like Stanford president John Hennessy, Intel’s Paul Otellini.

Tilghman said in a phone interview with the Daily Princetonian, “Google is a company from which I can learn a lot because Google fundamentally is in the information business. Universities of course have to be adept in the distribution of knowledge, and also in the dissemination of knowledge”.

Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, himself a Princeton graduate, said, in Google Press Release, “It’s an honor to welcome a woman of Dr. Tilghman’s reputation to our board. Google is a company born out of university research, so we look forward to tapping into her extraordinary talents as an accomplished academic, and as a champion of discovery”.

The press release give a background of Dr. Tilghman:

She made her mark during postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, where she participated in cloning the first mammalian gene.

She continued to make scientific breakthroughs in the field of mammalian genetics as a member of the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and an adjunct associate professor of human genetics and biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tilghman was a member of the National Research Council’s committee that set the blueprint for the U.S. effort in the Human Genome Project and went on to become one of the founding members of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project Initiative for the National Institutes of Health.

 

 

 

 

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