Mark Lemmon

FRS
Lemmon in 2016
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Norfolk, England
EducationNorwich School
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSpecific interactions between transmembrane alpha-helices: Their role in the oligomerisation of integral membrane proteins (1993)
Doctoral advisorDonald Engelman
Website

Mark Andrew Lemmon FRS[2] (born 1964) an English-born biochemist, is the Alfred Gilman Professor and Department Chair of Pharmacology at Yale University where he also directs the Cancer Biology Institute.[1][3][4]

Education

Lemmon was born in Norfolk, England in 1964 and grew up in Taverham and Poringland.[5] He was educated at Norwich School (from 1976 to 1983), and then at Hertford College, Oxford, from which he graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in biochemistry in 1988.[4] He completed his PhD at Yale University as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow supervised by Donald Engelman[6] for research on the oligomerization of transmembrane α-helices.[7]

Research and career

Following his PhD, Lemmon was a postdoctoral researcher and fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at New York University in the laboratory of Joseph Schlessinger.[8] Following his postdoctoral research, Lemmon was recruited to the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he gained tenure in 2001 and became departmental chair in 2008 before moving to Yale University in 2015.

Lemmon's research combines biochemistry and structural biology with cell biology, focusing on understanding molecular mechanisms of transmembrane signalling by cell-surface growth factor receptors such as the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor[1][2] and other receptor tyrosine kinases.[9] With Kathryn Ferguson and others, he also played an important role in understanding the structure and function of the Pleckstrin homology domain in phosphoinositide signalling and elsewhere.

Lemmon has made important contributions to the discovery of both normal and pathological activation mechanisms of growth factor receptors and the signalling networks that they engage within cells. He is also committed to exploiting this understanding clinically. These receptors and their downstream effectors are activated aberrantly in numerous cancers, and are important targets of cancer drugs. Lemmon's recent work has focused on the need to understand the biochemistry of oncogenic activation to use such drugs effectively.[2]

Before moving to Yale, Lemmon was George W. Raiziss Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[2][10] His research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute,[11] the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.[8]

Lemmon serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including Cell, Molecular Cell, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Science Signaling.[citation needed] Having served as an associate editor for the Biochemical Journal for many years, he was appointed chair of the editorial board in January 2021.[12] Between 2007 and 2013, Lemmon served as secretary for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).[citation needed]

Awards and honours

Lemmon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016,[2] as an ASBMB Fellow in 2023,[13] and as a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in 2024.[14] In 2012 Lemmon was awarded the Dorothy Hodgkin prize by the Protein Society.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Mark A. Lemmon publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d e Anon (2016). "Professor Mark Lemmon FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Mark A. Lemmon publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ a b "Mark Andrew Lemmon, PhD: Professor of Pharmacology; Director, Cancer Biology Institute". yale.edu. Yale University. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016.
  5. ^ Cope, Lauren (2016). "Former Norwich pupil and UEA lecturer elected as Fellows into the prestigious Royal Society for scientists". edp24.co.uk. Eastern Daily Press. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018.
  6. ^ Lemmon, Mark A.; Flanagan, John M.; Treutlein, Herbert R.; Zhang, Jian; Engelman, Donald M. (1992). "Sequence specificity in the dimerization of transmembrane .alpha.-helixes". Biochemistry. 31 (51): 12719–12725. doi:10.1021/bi00166a002. PMID 1463743.
  7. ^ Lemmon, Mark Andrew (1993). Specific interactions between transmembrane alpha-helices: Their role in the oligomerization of integral membrane proteins. search.library.yale.edu (PhD thesis). Yale University. (subscription required)
  8. ^ a b Mark Lemmon's ORCID 0000-0002-3379-5319
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Mark Andrew Lemmon". Pennsylvania: upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Mark Lemmon, co-director of the Yale Cancer Biology Institute, talks about how a National Cancer Ins". youtube.com.
  12. ^ "Mark Lemmon at the Biochemical Journal". biochemj.org. Portland Press.
  13. ^ "ASBMB names 2023 fellows".
  14. ^ "Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering Elects 35 New Members in 2024".
  15. ^ Anon (2013). "The Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award". proteinsociety.org. Protein Society. Archived from the original on 5 August 2013.
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