Mark A. Lemmon, PhD, Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology, lawman manager of Yale Cancer Center, and co-director of the Yale Cancer Biology Institute, has been named seat of Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, effectual July 1, 2023.
Lemmon’s interdisciplinary probe has contributed substantially to knowing however the epidermal maturation origin receptor (EGFR) signals astatine structural and mechanistic levels. Most recently, his lab’s enactment has focused connected knowing however differential activation of the aforesaid maturation origin receptor tyrosine kinase tin beforehand antithetic compartment fates, underscoring the value of signaling dynamics successful defining compartment destiny and disease. He is besides progressive successful 2 of Yale’s Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) and collaborates connected objective probe some astatine Yale and with colleagues astatine different world wellness centers connected specified diseases arsenic neuroblastoma, lung cancer, and caput and cervix cancer.
Recruited to Yale successful 2015 to assistance physique the Cancer Biology Institute (YCBI) astatine West Campus, Lemmon is implementing his imaginativeness of investigating networks astatine antithetic scales that support mean biology successful cheque and person gone awry successful cancer. He has recruited module spanning respective departments with expertise successful compartment signaling, epitranscriptomics, quantitative proteomics, genome stability/DNA harm repair, and successful vivo tumor initiation and evolution. At Yale Cancer Center, helium has worked to enlistee a cadre of doc scientists and to integrate the Cancer Center’s probe programs and illness country probe teams to stimulate the basic, clinical, and translational probe communities.
As chair, Lemmon volition actively beforehand diverseness wrong the section and volition physique upon its existent beardown instauration by recruiting module with expertise successful neuroscience, cardiovascular pharmacology, metabolism, immunology, systems pharmacology, computational studies, and chemic biology. He volition question to nexus the section with objective activities and to foster connections with different initiatives crossed Yale.
After receiving his BA successful biochemistry from the University of Oxford and his PhD successful molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale, Lemmon completed a postdoctoral fellowship successful pharmacology astatine New York University Medical Center. Prior to returning to Yale, helium was connected the module astatine the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine for astir 20 years, serving arsenic seat of the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics from 2008 to 2015. He besides is seat of the editorial committee of Biochemical Journal and was elected arsenic a chap of the Royal Society successful 2016.
As chair, Lemmon volition win Joseph Schessinger, PhD, who has led the Department of Pharmacology for much than 2 decades.
Submitted by Robert Forman connected November 22, 2022
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