We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

She received her PhD in molecular biology 1972 from The Rockefeller University. In 2002 Nina Fedoroff was appointed an Evan Pugh professor the university's highest academic honor. S.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and an administrator for the United States Agency for International Development from 2007 to 2010. In 1997 Fedoroff received the John P. Bush in 2007 the National Medal of Science in the field of Biological Sciences the highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research in the United States.