Marina V. Rodnina (born 19 November 1960) is a German biochemist.
Born in Kyiv, Rodnina studied biology at the University of Kyiv and obtained her PhD in molecular biology and genetics in 1989.[1] From 1990 to 1992, she was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Witten/Herdecke University. Afterwards, she was a research assistant at the same university and she received her habilitation in 1997. From 1998 to 2008, she was a professor at the Witten/Herdecke University. Since 2008, she is a scientific member and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.
Rodnina's research focuses on protein synthesis by and function on the ribosome.[2] In collaboration with colleagues, she was the first to visualize the activity of a ribosome with the help of a 3D cryo-electron microscope.
Rodnina is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[3] She was awarded the Hans Neurath Award in 2015,[4] the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2016,[5] and the Otto Warburg Medal in 2019.[6]