Joseph Schlessinger

Joseph Schlessinger
Born
Josip Schlessinger

(1945-03-26) 26 March 1945 (age 79)
Topusko, (present-day Republic of Croatia)
NationalityIsrael
United States
AwardsCiba-Drew Award (1995)Dan David Prize (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacology

Joseph Schlessinger (born Josip Schlessinger; 26 March 1945) is a Yugoslav-born Israeli-American biochemist and biophysician. He is chair of the Pharmacology Department at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the founding director of the school's new Cancer Biology Institute.[1] His area of research is signaling through tyrosine phosphorylation, which is important in many areas of cellular regulation, especially growth control and cancer. Schlessinger's work has led to an understanding of the mechanism of transmembrane signaling by receptor tyrosine kinases[2] and how the resulting signals control cell growth and differentiation.

  1. ^ "Schlessinger Appointed Director of New Cancer Biology Institute at Yale – Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communication". Opac.yale.edu. 13 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  2. ^ Lemmon, Mark Andrew; Schlessinger, Joseph (2010). "Cell Signaling by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases". Cell. 141 (7): 1117–1134. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.06.011. PMC 2914105. PMID 20602996.