Iron as Engine of Basic Biological Processes and Disease: The Future of BioIron Nancy Andrews, Duke University, USA

Nancy Andrewsis Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine. She is also a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology.

Dr. Andrews received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, her Ph.D. in Biology from MIT and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston, and her Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Children's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

After her training Dr. Andrews stayed on at Harvard and Children's Hospital, rising through the academic ranks to become the George Richards Minot Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard, Senior Associate in Medicine at the Children's Hospital Boston, and a Distinguished Physician of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She served as an attending physician in hematology and oncology at Children's Hospital until 2003. She was director of the Harvard-M.I.T. M.D.-Ph.D. Program from 1999 to 2003 and Dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate Studies at Harvard Medical School from 2003 to 2007.

Dr. Andrews has maintained an active NIH-funded research laboratory studying mouse models of human diseases. She was an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard for 13 years. She has authored over 150 articles and book chapters, and has received many awards and honors for her research, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the 2009 President of the American Society of Clinical Investigation.