Cheryl Arrowsmith is a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, and the Chief Scientist of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the structural and chemical biology of chromatin and epigenetic regulatory factors especially as relates to cancer and drug discovery. In partnership with major pharmaceutical companies, she leads the SGC’s international open science program that is developing and distributing unencumbered Chemical Probes that support the discovery of new medicines. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and carried out postdoctoral research at Stanford University, and was co-founder of Affinium Pharmaceuticals, which developed a new medicine for multidrug resistant bacteria. She has published over 300 research articles and was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as being among the worlds top 1% of highly cited scientists in 2018, 2019 and 2022. She was elected an AAAS Fellow (2015), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020).
Lemieux G, Pérez-Vargas J, Désilets A, Hassanzadeh M, Thompson CAH, Gravel-Trudeau A, Joushomme A, Ennis S, Villanueva I, Marouseau É, Fraser BJ, Champagne W, Lepage M, Niikura M, Arrowsmith CH, Jean F, Leduc R, Boudreault PL
J Med Chem. 2025-3-31 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c02468
PMID: 40163818Ghoshal A, Tse EG, Hossain MA, Asressu KH, Merten EM, Sears JD, Howell S, Perveen S, Burdick J, Morales NL, Martinez SA, Law I, Davenport BJ, Morrison TE, Streblow ZJ, Streblow DN, Mordant AL, Webb TS, Cabrera A, Herring LE, Arrowsmith CH, Pearce KH, Moorman NJ, Heise MT, Couñago RM, Brown PJ, Willson TM
Sci Rep. 2025-3-3 . 15(1):7264 .doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-91673-x
PMID: 40025188Uguen M, Shell DJ, Silva M, Deng Y, Li F, Szewczyk MM, Yang K, Zhao Y, Stashko MA, Norris-Drouin JL, Waybright JM, Beldar S, Rectenwald JM, Mordant AL, Webb TS, Herring LE, Arrowsmith CH, Ackloo S, Gygi SP, McGinty RK, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Liu P, Halabelian L, James LI, Pearce KH, Frye SV
Nat Commun. 2025-2-25 . 16(1):1905 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57005-3
PMID: 39994194Wang X, Sun J, Ahmad S, Yang D, Li F, Chan UH, Zeng H, Simoben CV, Houliston S, Dong A, Bolotokova A, Gibson E, Kutera M, Ghiabi P, Kondratov I, Matviyuk T, Chuprina A, Mavridi D, Lenz C, Joerger AC, Brown BD, Heath RB, Yue WW, Robbie LK, Beyett TS, Müller S, Knapp S, Harding R, Schapira M, Brown PJ, Santhakumar V, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith CH, Edwards AM, Peng H, Halabelian L
bioRxiv. 2025-2-3 . .doi: 10.1101/2025.01.17.633682
PMID: 39896675Mettu A, Glavatskikh M, Wang X, Lara Ordóñez AJ, Li F, Chau I, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith C, Bolotokova A, Ghiabi P, Gibson E, Halabelian L, Houliston S, Harding RJ, Hutchinson A, Loppnau P, Perveen S, Seitova A, Zeng H, Schapira M, Taymans JM, Kireev D
Chem Sci. 2025-1-29 . .doi: 10.1039/d4sc07532c
PMID: 39877816Feng Y, Goncalves MM, Jitkova Y, Keszei AFA, Yan Y, Sarathy C, St-Germain J, Kenney TMG, Tcheng M, Trudel V, Mancini RS, Upadhyay R, Hurren R, Gronda M, Schultz M, Soriano K, Lees K, Pomroy NC, Currie SQW, Privé GG, Reed MA, Yudin AK, Penn LZ, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B, Mazhab-Jafari MT, Vahidi S, Schimmer AD
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025-1-29 . 122(5):e2422447122 .doi: 10.1073/pnas.2422447122
PMID: 39879245Maitland MER, Onea G, Owens DDG, Gonga-Cavé BC, Wang X, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Lajoie GA, Schild-Poulter C
Commun Biol. 2024-12-20 . 7(1):1668 .doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-07371-3
PMID: 39702571Ghoshal A, Tse EG, Hossain MA, Asressu KH, Merten EM, Sears JD, Howell S, Perveen S, Burdick J, Morales NL, Martinez SA, Law I, Davenport BJ, Morrison TE, Streblow ZJ, Streblow DN, Mordant AL, Webb TS, Cabrera A, Herring LE, Arrowsmith CH, Pearce KH, Moorman NJ, Heise MT, Couñago RM, Brown PJ, Willson TM
Res Sq. 2024-11-28 . .doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5363451/v1
PMID: 39606462Johnson RL, Graboski AL, Li F, Norris-Drouin JL, Walton WG, Arrowsmith CH, Redinbo MR, Frye SV, James LI
J Med Chem. 2024-11-13 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c01172
PMID: 39508435Li F, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith CH, Ban F, Barden CJ, Beck H, Beránek J, Berenger F, Bolotokova A, Bret G, Breznik M, Carosati E, Chau I, Chen Y, Cherkasov A, Corte DD, Denzinger K, Dong A, Draga S, Dunn I, Edfeldt K, Edwards A, Eguida M, Eisenhuth P, Friedrich L, Fuerll A, Gardiner SS, Gentile F, Ghiabi P, Gibson E, Glavatskikh M, Gorgulla C, Guenther J, Gunnarsson A, Gusev F, Gutkin E, Halabelian L, Harding RJ, Hillisch A, Hoffer L, Hogner A, Houliston S, Irwin JJ, Isayev O, Ivanova A, Jacquemard C, Jarrett AJ, Jensen JH, Kireev D, Kleber J, Koby SB, Koes D, Kumar A, Kurnikova MG, Kutlushina A, Lessel U, Liessmann F, Liu S, Lu W, Meiler J, Mettu A, Minibaeva G, Moretti R, Morris CJ, Narangoda C, Noonan T, Obendorf L, Pach S, Pandit A, Perveen S, Poda G, Polishchuk P, Puls K, Pütter V, Rognan D, Roskams-Edris D, Schindler C, Sindt F, Spiwok V, Steinmann C, Stevens RL, Talagayev V, Tingey D, Vu O, Walters WP, Wang X, Wang Z, Wolber G, Wolf CA, Wortmann L, Zeng H, Zepeda CA, Zhang KYJ, Zhang J, Zheng S, Schapira M
J Chem Inf Model. 2024-11-5 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c01267
PMID: 39499532