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).
Eram MS, Shen Y, Szewczyk M, Wu H, Senisterra G, Li F, Butler KV, Kaniskan HÜ, Speed BA, Dela Seña C, Dong A, Zeng H, Schapira M, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Liu J, Vedadi M, Jin J
ACS Chem. Biol.. 2015-11-24 . .doi: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00839
PMID: 26598975Luan Y, Blazer LL, Hu H, Hajian T, Zhang J, Wu H, Houliston S, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M, Zheng YG
Org. Biomol. Chem.. 2015-11-6 . .doi: 10.1039/c5ob01794g
PMID: 26541578Sun Y, Bell JL, Carter DR, Gherardi S, Poulos RC, Milazzo G, Wong JW, Al-Awar R, Tee AE, Liu PY, Liu B, Atmadibrata B, Wong M, Trahair T, Zhao Q, Shohet JM, Haupt Y, Schulte JH, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M, MacKenzie KL, Huttelmaier S, Perini G, Marshall GM, Braithwaite A, Liu T
Cancer Res.. 2015-10-15 . .doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-0423
PMID: 26471359Zhong N, Loppnau P, Seitova A, Ravichandran M, Fenner M, Jain H, Bhattacharya A, Hutchinson A, Paduch M, Lu V, Olszewski M, Kossiakoff AA, Dowdell E, Koide A, Koide S, Huang H, Nadeem V, Sidhu SS, Greenblatt JF, Marcon E, Arrowsmith CH, Edwards AM, Gräslund S
PLoS ONE. 2015-10-5 . 10(10):e0139695 .doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139695
PMID: 26437229Zhu J, Sammons MA, Donahue G, Dou Z, Vedadi M, Getlik M, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Al-awar R, Katona BW, Shilatifard A, Huang J, Hua X, Arrowsmith CH, Berger SL
Nature. 2015-9-10 . 525(7568):206-11 .doi: 10.1038/nature15251
PMID: 26331536Huston A, Arrowsmith CH, Knapp S, Schapira M
Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2015-7-21 . 11(8):542-5 .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.1871
PMID: 26196765Arrowsmith CH, Audia JE, Austin C, Baell J, Bennett J, Blagg J, Bountra C, Brennan PE, Brown PJ, Bunnage ME, Buser-Doepner C, Campbell RM, Carter AJ, Cohen P, Copeland RA, Cravatt B, Dahlin JL, Dhanak D, Edwards AM, Frye SV, Gray N, Grimshaw CE, Hepworth D, Howe T, Huber KV, Jin J, Knapp S, Kotz JD, Kruger RG, Lowe D, Mader MM, Marsden B, Mueller-Fahrnow A, Müller S, O'Hagan RC, Overington JP, Owen DR, Rosenberg SH, Roth B, Ross R, Schapira M, Schreiber SL, Shoichet B, Sundström M, Superti-Furga G, Taunton J, Toledo-Sherman L, Walpole C, Walters MA, Willson TM, Workman P, Young RN, Zuercher WJ
Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2015-7-21 . 11(8):536-41 .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.1867
PMID: 26196764Grebien F, Vedadi M, Getlik M, Giambruno R, Grover A, Avellino R, Skucha A, Vittori S, Kuznetsova E, Smil D, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Li F, Poda G, Schapira M, Wu H, Dong A, Senisterra G, Stukalov A, Huber KV, Schönegger A, Marcellus R, Bilban M, Bock C, Brown PJ, Zuber J, Bennett KL, Al-Awar R, Delwel R, Nerlov C, Arrowsmith CH, Superti-Furga G
Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2015-7-13 . .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.1859
PMID: 26167872Marcon E, Jain H, Bhattacharya A, Guo H, Phanse S, Pu S, Byram G, Collins BC, Dowdell E, Fenner M, Guo X, Hutchinson A, Kennedy JJ, Krastins B, Larsen B, Lin ZY, Lopez MF, Loppnau P, Miersch S, Nguyen T, Olsen JB, Paduch M, Ravichandran M, Seitova A, Vadali G, Vogelsang MS, Whiteaker JR, Zhong G, Zhong N, Zhao L, Aebersold R, Arrowsmith CH, Emili A, Frappier L, Gingras AC, Gstaiger M, Paulovich AG, Koide S, Kossiakoff AA, Sidhu SS, Wodak SJ, Gräslund S, Greenblatt JF, Edwards AM
Nat. Methods. 2015-6-29 . .doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3472
PMID: 26121405Sweis RF, Wang Z, Algire M, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Chiang GG, Guo J, Jakob CG, Kennedy S, Li F, Maag D, Shaw B, Soni NB, Vedadi M, Pappano WN
ACS Med Chem Lett. 2015-6-11 . 6(6):695-700 .doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5b00124
PMID: 26101576