Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon, PhD (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist. She was the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Amon's research focused on how chromosomes are regulated and repeated in the cell cycle. Amon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
Amon died of ovarian cancer on October 29, 2020 in Cambridge at the age of 53.