Susanne M. Gollin, PhD, professor emerita of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, died April 6, 2025. She was 71.
Gollin was born in 1953 and grew up in Lincolnwood, Illinois. She attended Northwestern University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1974, a master’s degree in 1975, and a doctorate in 1980, all in biological sciences. She completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Rochester and the Baylor College of Medicine.
She was an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and director of the cytogenetics laboratory at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock from 1984 to 1987. She joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1987 and served in the Graduate School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, and the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (now the UPMC Hillman Cancer Institute) and the School of Medicine, becoming professor of human genetics in 2003.
Gollin’s main research interest was in cytogenetics, and she served as director of the University of Pittsburgh Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory, which was later merged with two other laboratories to become the Pittsburgh Cytogenetics Laboratory.
A member of the AACR since 1991, Gollin was a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics & Genomics and a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, the International Academy of Oral Oncology, and the Indian Association of Molecular Pathologists.
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