Clare Waterman

She/Her

I am gay and I am a cell biologist.//

 

I grew up in the 70s, came out in college (Mount Holyoke ’89), “married” my partner in a family wedding in 1990, was out all through grad school (UPenn ’93) and post doc (UNC Chapel Hill ’99). I negotiated same-sex partner benefits in my first faculty job at The Scripps Research Institute (’99) at a time that no institutions offered this. I had to do it again when I moved my lab to the NIH because it was pre-DOMA. I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.