Elisa Izaurralde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elisa Izaurralde

Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1959

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Date of Death: 30-Apr-2018

Profession: biochemist, molecular biologist

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Elisa Izaurralde (20 September 1959 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 30 April 2018 in Tübingen, Germany) was an Uruguayan biochemist and molecular biologist.
She served as Director and Scientific Member of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen from 2005 until her death in 2018.
In 2008, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, shared with Elena Conti, for "fundamental new insights into intracellular RNA transport and RNA metabolism".
Together with Conti, she helped characterize proteins important for exporting mRNA out of the nucleus and later in her career she helped elucidate mechanisms of mRNA silencing, translational repression, and mRNA decay.