Ann Nardulli, a longtime professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studied the activity of estrogen in cells, died June 27 from cancer. She was 69 years old.
A graduate of Northern Illinois University in science education, Nardulli first taught elementary school before earning a master’s degree and PhD from the University of Illinois (U of I) in the lab of endocrinologist Benita Katzenellenbogen. Nardulli stayed at U of I for the rest of her career, first as a postdoc and then as a professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology.
Nardulli conducted research into the activities of estrogen—the proteins it binds with and how the hormone manipulates chromatin and DNA.
“Dr. Nardulli did pioneering work that identified the protein complexes with which the estrogen receptor associated, many previously unknown, and she and her laboratory associates went on to elucidate how these proteins collaborated with and modulated ...
