Joan S. Valentine

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Joan Selverstone Valentine
Born1945 (age 7778)
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Princeton University (Ph.D. 1971)
Smith College (A.B. 1967)
Known for superoxide dismutase, superoxide radical
Scientific career
Fields Bioinorganic chemistry, Biochemistry
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles

Joan Selverstone Valentine (born 1945) is a biological inorganic chemist and biochemist. [2] Valentine's current work examines the role of transition metals, metalloenzymes, and oxidative stress in health. Her foremost expertise is superoxide anion and its functional enzyme superoxide dismutase. Valentine has been a member of the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles since 1980. She served as Associate Editor of the journal Inorganic Chemistry from 1989 to 1995, [1] and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research since 1994. In 2005, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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Early life and education

Joan S. Valentine was born in Auburn, California in 1945. In 1967, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Princeton University in 1971, where she conducted inorganic photochemistry on dicobalt-dioxygen complexes. [1] After a year as an Instructor at Princeton, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in 1972.

Independent career

In 1972, she moved to Rutgers University where she served as Assistant, Associate and Professor of Chemistry. In 1980, she moved to UCLA as Professor of Chemistry. From 1991 to 1994, she also served as Departmental Vice Chair for Research and Administration. Valentine served as Director of the UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface Predoctoral Training Program from 1993 to 2001.

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  2. "Joan S. Valentine". University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
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