Rachel Green

Rachel Green is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on ribosomes and their function in translation. Green has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.

Green grew up near Cleveland, Ohio, where her mother was a chemistry teacher. Green intended to study engineering in college, but changed her major to chemistry, earning a B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1986. She then earned a PhD in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1992, in the lab of Jack Szostak, where she studied RNA.

She did postdoctoral research at University of California Santa Cruz in the lab of Harry Noller, researching the function of the ribosome in E. coli.

Green joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1998. Green has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.

She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Green's husband, Brendan Cormack, is also a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University. The couple has 3 children.