Nancy Bonini

Nancy Bonini
Nancy Bonini
Born	Nancy M. Bonini; 1959 (age 66–67)
Education	Princeton University (AB); University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD)
Known for	Developed the first Drosophila model of human neurodenerative disease
Spouse	Anthony Cashmore
Awards	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2000–2013); Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences; Elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
	Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience; Genetics;
Institutions	California Institute of Technology; University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor	David L. Nelson

Nancy M. Bonini (born 1959) is an American neuroscientist and geneticist, best known for pioneering the use of Drosophila as a model organism to study neurodegeneration of the human brain. Using the Drosophila model approach, Bonini's laboratory has identified genes and pathways that are important in the development and progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's Disease), Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, as well as aging, neural injury and regeneration, and response to environmental toxins.

A professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1994, Bonini has held appointments as the inaugural Lucille B. Williams Term Professor of Biology (2006–2012), an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2000–2013), and the Florence RC Murray Professor of Biology (since 2012). She was editor of the Annual Review of Genetics from 2018-2021.