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THE BOSS
BARBARA IMPERIALI CLASS OF 1922 PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY AND PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
IMPERIALI RECEIVED HER B.SC. IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY FROM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK, AND HER PH.D. IN SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, WORKING UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSOR SATORU MASAMUNE. FOLLOWING THIS, SHE CARRIED OUT POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES BOTH AT MIT AND IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, WHERE SHE WORKED ON THE DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND EVALUATION OF PEPTIDE-BASED FLUOROMETHYL KETONE PROTEASE INHIBITORS WITH PROFESSOR ROBERT ABELES.
IMPERIALI BEGAN HER CAREER AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY IN 1986. IN 1989, SHE JOINED THE FACULTY IN THE DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, WHERE SHE EARNED THE RANK OF PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN 1997. IN 1999, PROFESSOR IMPERIALI RETURNED TO MIT AS THE ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, AND IN 2009 SHE ASSUMED HER CURRENT APPOINTMENT AS THE CLASS OF 1922 PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY AND PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AT MIT.
THE BOSS IS AN AVID HIKER AND BACKPACKER AND LIKES TO GET "WAY OFF THE GRID" WHEN MIT DOESN'T NEED HER!
