Joanna Fowler

Joanna Sigfred Fowler (born August 9, 1942 ) is an American nuclear chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory , Upton , New York and professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and of chemistry and biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University , both in New York City .

Life

Fowler earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of South Florida at Tampa in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1967 from John S. Meek with his thesis Addition-elimination reactions of 1,2-di-p-toluenesulfonylethene at the University of Colorado. in chemistry before joining the University of East Anglia in Norwich as a postdoctoral fellow in 1968 . She has been working at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton , New York , since 1969 , initially as a research assistant, and finally in a managerial position (senior chemist) . Since 2006 she has also been Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City . She is also professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University , also in New York City.

Fowler pioneered the development and application of positron- emitting nuclear medicine tracers to visualize the brain in positron emission tomography . In 1976 she was involved in the development of ¹⁸F - fluorodeoxyglucose with Alfred P. Wolf . Fowler's translational applications in neuroscience have fundamentally improved the understanding of human brain function. Fowler particularly examined changes in brain function during aging and in various disorders such as drug addiction or attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 1: A – L. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7031-8 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (complete work), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 1448

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SURNAME	Fowler, Joanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fowler, Joanna S .; Fowler, Joanna Sigfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 9, 1942