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Hazel L. Sive, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Sive received a Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, in chemistry and zoology. She completed her Ph.D. in molecular biology from Rockefeller University in New York City. She pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in embryology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, in Seattle, Washington.
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