William "Bill" R. Brinkley

William "Bill" R. Brinkley

William ('Bill') R. Brinkley, is a cellular biologist and serves as Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Senior Vice President of the Graduate Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. Brinkley is recognized particularly for contributing to discovery of the attachment of chromosomes to the mitotic spindle apparatus.

Biography

Brinkley earned his undergraduate degree in general biology from Sam Houston State University, where he later taught biology and maintained the school's small natural history museum. He earned his PhD in the lab of John H. D. Bryan at Iowa State University in 1964, followed by NIH post-doctoral training with Tao-Chiuh Hsu at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and an assistant and associate professor of biology until 1972, when he accepted a position as Professor and Director of Cell Biology in the Department of Human Biological Chemistry at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas [http://www.researchamerica.org/brinkley_william Research America biography profile] .

Research Focus

Brinkley is attempting to uncover the molecular basis of errors and defects in the nucleus and mitotic apparatus that cause aneuploidy.

Other

Brinkley has served on numerous journal editorial boards including Journal of Cell Biology and Cell. He briefly served as President of the American Society for Cell Biology (1979-1980). He is the recipient of a Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, for his research on cell division and genomic instability in tumor cells. He served as President of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology from 1998-1999. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus from Sam Houston State University, Iowa State University, and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

References

External links

* [http://www.iom.edu/CMS/2951/16476.aspx?browseby=Last+Name&filterby=a Institute of Medicine Membership Information]
* [http://www.bcm.edu/star/?PMID=3002 Baylor College of Medicine faculty profile]
* [http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=110&id=1271&tcode=nws3 American Society for Cell Biology profile]

cientific Lineage

[http://neurotree.org/neurotree/tree.php?pid=9502 Neurotree Lineage]


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