- Michael Marletta
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Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist, professor at University of California, Berkeley and president-elect of The Scripps Research Institute.
He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, where he studied with George Kenyon. He was John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy and Professor of Biological Chemistry at University of Michigan.[1] In 2001, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley to assume roles as Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2005 until 2010.[2] He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.[3]
On February 20, 2011, it was announced that Marletta will lead the The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, succeeding Richard Lerner. He joined the Institute's faculty in July 2011, and he will take over the role of President and CEO on January 1, 2012.[4]
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Awards
- 2006 National Academy of Sciences [5]
- 2004 Harrison Howe Awardee [6]
- 1999 Institute of Medicine [7]
- 1995 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
- "Nitric-Oxide Synthase Assays", Oxygen radicals in biological systems, Editor Lester Packer, Elsevier, 1994, ISBN 9780121821340
- "Biochemistry of Soluble Guanulate Cyclase", CGMP: Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications, Editors Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Franz Hofmann, Johannes-Peter Stasch, Springer, 2009, ISBN 9783540689607
References
- ^ http://www.ns.umich.edu/MT/97/Sum97/mta9j97.html
- ^ http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/marletta/
- ^ http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/marletta_bio.html
- ^ http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/20110220.html
- ^ http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Lab-NAS-elections.html
- ^ http://www.chem.rochester.edu/howe/marletta.php
- ^ http://www.iom.edu/Global/Directory/Detail.aspx?id=0003000510
External links
- Michael A. Marletta", Scientific Commons
Categories:- American biochemists
- University of California, San Francisco alumni
- Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
- State University of New York at Fredonia alumni
- University of Michigan faculty
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Living people
- MacArthur Fellows
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