Edna B. Kearney

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.

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.

As a scientist, Kearney researched enzyme chemistry and intermediary metabolisms. As part of their work as Fellows, they worked under C. Fromageot and David Keilin. She and Singer co-wrote two articles in F. F. Nord's Advances in Enzymology series, with the newer one (also written with Vincent Massey) being called "an admirable review article in which a great deal of information, previously miscellaneous or conflicting, is brought into a coherent framework".

Kearney was married to her research partner Thomas Singer for fifteen years, She had retired years earlier to North Little Rock, Arkansas.