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UCLA School of Medicine
Biological Sciences
1994
"For her contributions to the
understanding of the lysosomal storage diseases, demonstrating
the strong linkage between basic and applied
scientific investigation."
Presented by Vice President Al Gore
at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Washington, DC on Monday, December
19, 1994.
"I began working in human genetics. I had an idea
about the group of diseases called MPS, in which the cells' lysosomes
break down. My first idea was quite wrong, and it took me a while
to figure out why. . . . I was ultimately able to solve this group
of diseases that had been a puzzle, and in a fairly unusual way.
So unusual, in fact, that our findings related to this disease
group opened up some new areas of basic science. This sparked interest
and brought a lot of people into the field."
From an interview of Elizabeth Neufeld by Jacquie
Michels for UCLA Magazine, Fall 1994.
 National Science Foundation Citation Page
Faculty
web page, David Geffen School of Medicine
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