Susan Mango

Who is Susan Mango?

Susan E. Mango is an American biologist, former H.A. and Edna Benning Professor of Oncological Sciences at University of Utah, and current professor at Harvard University. She is the director of the Mango lab.

She graduated from Harvard University, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Judith Kimble at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She and her team study the cells of the worm C. elegans, to observe how a cell transforms from a pluripotent state, into a particular cell type. Her articles have been published in Nature, Science, Cell, and PLoS Biology.