Marlene Belfort Ph.D. is Professor at the Wadsworth Center at the New York State Department of Health. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1972 and did postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She was involved in the discovery of self-splicing introns in bacteriophage DNA, and continues to do research in the area. She was admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

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