Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon, PhD (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist. She was the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Angelika Amon
Angelika Amon in October 2017.
Born	January 10, 1967 Vienna, Austria
Died	October 29, 2020 (aged 53) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	Austrian
Citizenship	Austria & United States
Alma mater	University of Vienna (B.S.) University of Vienna (PhD, 1993)
Known for	Chromosome duplication and cell division
Awards	1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2003 Alan T. Waterman Award 2003 Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research (shared with Todd R. Golub and Gregory J. Hannon) 2008 NAS Award in Molecular Biology 2013 Ernst Jung Prize 2018 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2019 Vilcek Prize
Scientific career
Institutions	Whitehead Institute (1994–1999) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999–2020) Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Doctoral advisor	Kim Nasmyth

Amon's research focused on how chromosomes are regulated and repeated in the cell cycle. Amon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Amon died of ovarian cancer on October 29, 2020 in Cambridge at the age of 53.

Other websites

• MIT Department of Biology homepage
• Amon Lab homepage Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Koch Institute homepage
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute homepage Archived 2013-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Angelika Amon Seminar: Consequences of Aneuploidy