Katherine Anne Sprague was born May 10, 1949, in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, the daughter of
agronomist and his wife, Margarete Hardegen Sprague. Raised in the
Dayton section of
South Brunswick, New Jersey, Squibb graduated from
South Brunswick High School. She majored in biochemistry at
University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1971. Squibb married fellow toxicologist on August 21, 1971. Squibb completed a master's and Ph.D. (1977) in biochemistry at
Rutgers University. Her dissertation was titled
Control of hepatic metallothionein synthesis by zinc and cadmium. She was a
postdoctoral researcher at the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. In 1984, Squibb joined the
New York University Medical Center's Institute of Environmental Medicine. In 1993, she joined the department of medicine at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine. She worked as the co-director of the
University System of Maryland's graduate program in toxicology. She led research on
metal toxicity "and metabolism elucidated ways in which metals such as cadmium, lead, and depleted uranium target specific organ systems." In the fall of 2015, She received the achievement graduate education award from the University of Maryland's graduate program in life sciences. Widowed since 2016, Squibb died on August 18, 2018, in
Columbia, Maryland, of
Alzheimer's disease. She was survived by daughter Elizabeth Wohler, son Michael Squibb, and grandsons, Flynn Scott Wohler and Everett Michael Wohler. == References ==