Cornelia "Nina" Channing (1938–1985) was an American professor ofphysiology at theUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine. Her research focused onendocrinology andfertility; along with longtime collaboratorsNeena Schwartz and Darrell Ward, she was involved in the discovery ofhormones involved in regulating the female reproductive cycle. She died ofbreast cancer in 1985.^[1][2]

Channing was born inBoston, Massachusetts in 1938. She received her bachelor's degree fromHood College in 1961 and her PhD inbiochemistry fromHarvard Medical School in 1965, advised byClaude Villee. She worked as apostdoctoral fellow inCambridge.^[2]

Channing returned to the US to serve as an instructor and later anassistant professor at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, where she spent seven years in total. In 1973 she moved to theUniversity of Maryland as an associate professor and was promoted tofull professor in 1976. Channing served on the board of directors of theSociety for the Study of Reproduction in 1978-80 and was the recipient of its first Research Award in 1978.^[2] Channing was a close collaborator of endocrinologistNeena Schwartz, whose work on their shared research interests continued after Channing's death; along with other researchers including Darrell Ward, they identified thepeptide hormoneinhibin and worked out molecular mechanisms of hormonal signaling in the femalereproductive cycle.^[3][4] Channing's interest in the biology of reproduction was motivated in part by an interest incontraceptive research.^[2]

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