Pippa Marrack, Ph.D.

I was raised in the United Kingdom and Malta GC.  After boarding school  I went to New Hall college Cambridge University and there took a degree in Biochemistry.  I got my Ph.D. with Dr. Alan Munro at the Molecular Biology Laboratories, 4 miles south of the City of Cambridge.  In 1969 I married Tony Hunter and, in 1971, we came together to the University of California, San Diego (me) and the Salk Institute (Hunter). In 1973 I got divorced and moved to the University of Rochester with John Kappler, whom I later married.  I had two children and simultaneously moved up the academic ranks to the status of Associate Professor, running a lab then and until recently with my husband.  In 1979 John Kappler and I moved to what are now called National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado where I continued to move up the ranks ending up as a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine at National Jewish Health.  Now I am more or less retired.  With my husband I have been awarded a number of prizes including the Royal Society Wellcome Foundation Prize, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstadter Prize,  the L’Oreal Unesco prize for Women and the Wolf Prize.  I have been elected to the membership of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the Royal Society, the Society for Medical Sciences (UK) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  I have trained more than 10 Ph.D. students and more than 40 postdoctoral fellows. Almost all of these now hold positions as scientists in academic or biotechnological institutions. I feel myself to have been extraordinarily lucky to have had supportive colleagues and a wonderful life.