Sue Wickner

Sue Hengren Wickner is an American biochemist and geneticist who is a distinguished investigator and the head of the DNA Molecular Biology section of the National Institutes of Health. Her laboratory is under the National Cancer Institute and is located in the Center for Cancer Research (NCI/CCR).

Education Sue earned the B.S. degree from American University and the M.S. from Georgetown University. At NIH, her research has illuminated the action of proteins that utilize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) energy in tiny machines to replicate DNA, remodel proteins, and break down proteins. She has been a major contributor to the understanding of molecular chaperones, proteins that regulate most cellular processes including replication and transcription and response to stress. Chaperones function to alter activity, refold as well as degrade proteins.

Honors and awards National Academy of Sciences Member, 2004 American Academy of Arts and Science Member, 2002 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 2001

Books Lila Gierasch, Arthur Horwich, Christine Slingsby, Sue Wickner, and David Agard. (2016) Structure And Action Of Molecular Chaperones: Machines That Assist Protein Folding In The Cell World Scientific Publishing Company Pte Ltd.

Selected works