Katherine S. Squibb

Katherine Anne Sprague[1] was born May 10, 1949, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[2] She is the daughter of agronomist Milton Alan Sprague and homemaker Margarete Hardegen Sprauge.[2] Raised in the Dayton section of South Brunswick, Squibb graduated from South Brunswick High School.[1] She majored in biochemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1971.[2] Squibb married fellow toxicologist Robert E. Squibb on August 21, 1971.[1] Squibb completed a master's and Ph.D. (1977) in biochemistry at Rutgers University.[2] Her dissertation was titled Control of hepatic metallothionein synthesis by zinc and cadmium.[3] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.[2]

In 1984, Squibb joined the New York University Medical Center's Institute of Environmental Medicine.[2] In 1993, she joined the department of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.[2] She worked as the co-director of the University System of Maryland's graduate program in toxicology.[2] Squibb led research on metal toxicity "and metabolism elucidated ways in which metals such as cadmium, lead, and depleted uranium target specific organ systems."[2] In the fall of 2015, Squibb received the achievement graduate education award from the University of Maryland's graduate program in life sciences.[4]

Squibb had a daughter and son.[2] She died August 18, 2018, in Columbia, Maryland, of Alzheimer's disease.[2]