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Ann Hochschild is Maude & Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Microbiology. She is known for discovering prion proteins in bacteria.

Education
Hochschild graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in English Literature in 1978. She then switched fields to science, and carried out her graduate work in Mark Ptashne’s laboratory at Harvard University, where she studied the regulatory mechanisms of phage lambda gene expression. After receiving her Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology in 1986, she spent three postdoctoral years as a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Career
Hochschild joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (now the Department of Microbiology) at Harvard Medical School in 1989. She discovered the first prion-forming protein in bacteria in the bacterium Clostridium difficile. She was appointed as Chair of the Department of Microbiology in November 2018.

Awards
• 1991 Searle Scholar Award

• 1994 Presidential Young Investigator Award

• American Heart Association Established Investigator Award

• Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

• 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award