- Gillian Small
Dr. Gillian Small is the current University Dean for Research at the
City University of New York . She joined CUNY in2001 . Dr. Small is also a tenured full professor of Biology atCity College of CUNY.Dr. Small received her PhD in the
Biological Sciences in 1983 from theUniversity of Wolverhampton in England, where she also completed her undergraduate education in the Biological Sciences. She came to the US in 1985 to conduct postdoctoral research at theRockefeller University in New York, in the laboratory ofNobel Laureate Dr.Christian DeDuve , acytologist andbiochemist . Dr. Small's research focus isorganelle biogenesis andmolecular regulation oflipid metabolism ; she has published and lectured widely in this area.Previously, Dr. Small served on the faculty at the
University of Florida (1988), where she led her own independent research program to studyperoxisome biogenesis and themolecular regulation oflipid metabolism . In 1992, she became a faculty member atMount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where she directed a laboratory as well as served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.At CUNY, Dr. Small has been instrumental in redesigning
doctoral education in the sciences and in enhancing the University’s scientific research infrastructure. She established CUNY’s firstPostdoctoral Program for postdoctoral fellows across the University and the Technology Commercialization office. She also played a key role establishing theInstitute for Macromolecular Assemblies and theInstitute for Sustainable Cities . She is overseeing the planning and programming of a new CUNY Advanced Science Research Center.External links
* [http://www1.cuny.edu/academics/research-scholarship/about-us.html Office of Research at the City University of New York] *
* [http://www1.cuny.edu/academics/centers-and-institutes/view.html?prof=95 Institute for Macromolecular Research] *
* [http://www.cunysustainablecities.org/ Institute for Sustainable Cities] *
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