Randal J. Kaufman

Randal J. Kaufman is the director and a professor of the Degenerative Diseases Program, Neuroscience and Aging Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Randal J. Kaufman

Ph.D.
Born
Denver, Colorado
Alma materUniversity of Colorado, Boulder
Scientific career
FieldsHemophilia, metabolic disease, diabetes, inflammation, cancer, neurodegeneration Cellular and Molecular Biology
InstitutionsGenetics Institute Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), La Jolla, California
ThesisDevelopment and Maintenance of Drugs Resistance in Cultured Mammalian Cells
Doctoral advisorRobert Schimke, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA

Biography

Kaufman received his BA at the University of Colorado and went on to obtain his Ph.D. in pharmacology at Stanford University and undertook postdoctoral studies at the Center for Cancer Research at M.I.T., where he was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow with Nobel laureate Phillip Allen Sharp.[1] From 1994–2011, Kaufman was Professor of Biological Chemistry and Internal Medicine, Endowed Chair of Medicine and Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan Medical School. He joined SBP in 2011.[1]

Awards and honors
  • 1993: Dr. Murray Thelin Award, National Hemophilia Foundation
  • 1998: International Association Francaise Des Hemophiles Award, "Prix Henri Chaigneau"
  • 1999: Investigator Recognition Award, Intl. Soc. Thrombosis & Haemostasis (ISTH)
  • 2000: Distinguished Investigator Award-MI Hemophilia Society
  • 2003: Van Wezel Prize, European Society of Animal Cell Technology (ESACT)
  • 2006: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[2]
  • 2007-2017: NIH NIDDK MERIT Award
  • 2014, 2015: Thomson Reuters World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in Biochemistry & Biology[3]
  • 2015: Society for Free Radical Research (SFRR), Clinical Science Award
  • 2016: Endowed Chair in Cell Biology. SBP Medical Discovery Institute[1]

References
  1. "Randal Kaufman, Ph.D. - SBP". www.sbpdiscovery.org.
  2. "AAAS News and Notes" (PDF). Science. 314 (5803): 1256–1260. 2006. doi:10.1126/science.314.5803.1256. S2CID 220110082.
  3. Robbins, Gary (13 July 2014). "SD home to 48 of world's top scientists". San Diego Union Tribune.
    - "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015" (PDF). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.