Rate My Professor Susan Parkhurst

Susan Parkhurst, PhD, is a Professor in the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where she joined in 1992. She holds the Mark Groudine Endowed Chair for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Service, appointed in 2022, and serves as an Affiliate Professor of Biology at the University of Washington. Parkhurst received her BA in Biology in 1982 and PhD in Developmental Biology in 1985 from Johns Hopkins University. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in Developmental Genetics at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, UK, in 1986, and at the California Institute of Technology in 1990. Her career includes significant leadership roles such as co-associate director of the Basic Sciences Division from 2000 to 2004, membership on the division's executive committee since 2015, service on the Fred Hutch Graduate Affairs Committee since 1993, and chairing the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award committee since 1999. She represented Fred Hutch on the steering committee for the National Cancer Institute grant supporting the Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium for 18 years and founded the Fred Hutch Postbaccalaureate Scholar Program to provide lab training for early-career researchers.