Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff Broke Race and Gender Barriers, and Her Research Helped Millions Along the Way
Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a renowned molecular and cellular biologist best known for her work in her 1978 post-doctoral research. She was a key member of the team that discovered how bacterial cells could be used to generate insulin, and she has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a businesswoman…