Sarah A. Woodson

SARAH A. WOODSON, the Thomas C. Jenkins Professor of Biophysics in the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, is an expert in how RNA molecules fold into specific three-dimensional shapes and how they interact with proteins to turn genes on and off in the cell. Together with Mark Chance and Michael Brenowitz, she pioneered methods for visualizing how RNA molecules change shape in real time. She served on the board of The RNA Society and was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2011. Dr. Woodson joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in 1999. She received her PhD in biophysical chemistry at Yale University in 1987 and did postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1987-1990.