Anita Corbett

As a high school student, Corbett took part in the National Science Bowl. She has said that her high school chemistry teacher made her believe she could be a chemist, and encouraged her to take AP Chemistry.^{[citation needed]} She was an undergraduate student at Colgate University,^[3] where she became interested in biochemistry, and studied the activation and inhibition of bovine carbonic anhydrase.^[4] Corbett was a doctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University,^[5] where she studied the regulation of topoisomerase II supervised by Neil Osheroff [Wikidata].^[6]

After her PhD, she moved to Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral researcher with Pamela Silver.^[7]

In 2003, Corbett was the first woman to be tenured in the Emory University School of Medicine.^[5] Her research investigates the regulation of biological processes, including the import of proteins and export of mRNA. She studies these processes using model systems of yeast, Drosophila and laboratory mice.^[8][9] It is well understood that disease is linked to mutations in genes encoding structural RNA exosome subunits.^[5] Corbett linked mutations in one particular subunit, EXOSC5, to poor clinical outcomes.^[10] She has extensively investigated RNA-binding proteins, which are involved with various stages of gene expression.^[11]

• 2015 Eleanor Main Graduate Faculty Mentor Award^[12]
• 2018 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science^[7]
• 2020 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mid-Career Leadership Award^[5]
• 2022 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^[13]
• 2022 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology^[14]
• 2022 RNA Society Award for Excellence in Inclusive Leadership^[15]

• Allison Lange; Ryan E. Mills; Christopher J Lange; Murray Stewart; Scott E Devine; Anita H Corbett (14 December 2006). "Classical nuclear localization signals: definition, function, and interaction with importin alpha". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (8): 5101–5105. doi:10.1074/JBC.R600026200. ISSN 0021-9258. PMC 4502416. PMID 17170104. Wikidata Q34591163.
• Debashish Ray; Hilal Kazan; Kate B Cook; et al. (1 July 2013). "A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation". Nature. 499 (7457): 172–177. doi:10.1038/NATURE12311. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 3929597. PMID 23846655. Wikidata Q34357005.
• David S Goldfarb; Anita H Corbett; D Adam Mason; Michelle T Harreman; Stephen A. Adam (1 September 2004). "Importin alpha: a multipurpose nuclear-transport receptor". Trends in Cell Biology (in English and English). 14 (9): 505–514. doi:10.1016/J.TCB.2004.07.016. ISSN 0962-8924. PMID 15350979. Wikidata Q35879618.