Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist and geneticist.
Chory is a professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
She holds the Howard H.
and Maryam R.
Newman Chair in Plant Biology.
She is also an adjunct professor in the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego.