JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist. She is the Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was born in 1946 in Champaign, Illinois, United States. Stubbe received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. She received Ph. D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation she became a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stubbe moved to Williams College in 1972 as an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department. In 1977 she became an assistant professor in the Pharmacology Department at Yale University. In 1980 she moved to the University of Wisconsin, serving as assistant professor in the Biochemistry Department. She received the National Medal Of Science in 2008.