Marian Young
Marian Frances Young is an American developmental biologist researching the function of extracellular matrix proteins in skeletal tissues. She is the deputy scientific director of the division of intramural research at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
Education
Young completed a bachelor's degree at State University of New York at Oneonta. She earned a Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Connecticut in the department of genetics and cell biology. Her 1981 dissertation was titled, Serum Protein Synthesis in the Extraembryonic Endoderm of the Early Chick Embryo. In 1981, Young came to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research as a postdoctoral fellow to work with George Martin, the chief of the lab of craniofacial and developmental anomalies branch. Her postdoctoral work in the LDBA ranch from 1981 to 1983 investigated the structure, function, and regulation of matrix genes made by cartilage tissue.Career
Young became staff fellow/tenure-track investigator in 1983 in the mineralized tissue branch led by John Termine. There, she began investigations on the molecular biology and function of extracellular matrix proteins in skeletal tissues. In 1990, Young became a tenured senior investigator of the molecular biology of bones and teeth section in the MTB which subsequently became the craniofacial and skeletal diseases branch led by Pamela Robey.Young has organized symposia and scientific conferences on the topic of bones and teeth, mineralization, and the ECM including the Gordon Research Conference on Bones and Teeth, a symposium on the ECM in the Craniofacial Complex, AADR and the GRC on Proteoglycans. Young has served on numerous committees at the NIH related to promotion and tenure action, oversight of animal facilities, and coordination of summer student research. She has supervised dozens of research fellows and students.
As of 2018, Young was a senior investigator and chief of the molecular biology of bones and teeth section. In August 2018, she was appointed deputy scientific director of the NIDCR division of intramural research.