Hildegard Schuller

Dr. Schuller received the DVM at the University of Giessen and then earned the PhD in pathology at the Hanover (Germany) College of Veterinary Medicine, where she served as assistant professor for six years. In 1978 she immigrated to the United States and worked at the Frederick Cancer Research Institute in Frederick, Maryland, and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. She joined the UT faculty in the College of Veterinary Medicine in 1985, with a research interest in human lung cancer cells. Because of her groundbreaking discovery of the presence of a signal transduction system in every cell and the utilization of the transduction system by chemicals found in cigarette smoke, she was the recipient of the 1994 Alton Ochsner Award—the first female and the first veterinarian to receive the award.