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).
Ayyadhury S, Sachamitr P, Kushida MM, Park NI, Coutinho FJ, Whitley O, Prinos P, Arrowsmith CH, Dirks PB, Pugh TJ, Bader GD
Commun Biol. 2026-1-24 . .doi: 10.1038/s42003-026-09566-2
PMID: 41577992Herasymenko O, Silva M, Correy GJ, Abu-Saleh AAA, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith C, Ashworth A, Ban F, Beck H, Bishop KP, Bohórquez HJ, Bolotokova A, Breznik M, Chau I, Chen Y, Cherkasov A, Dehaen W, Della Corte D, Denzinger K, Doering NP, Edfeldt K, Edwards A, Fayne D, Gentile F, Gibson E, Gokdemir O, Gunnarsson A, Günther J, Irwin JJ, Jensen JH, Harding RJ, Hillisch A, Hoffer L, Hogner A, Hutchinson A, Kandwal S, Karlova A, Koirala K, Kotelnikov S, Kozakov D, Lee J, Lee S, Lessel U, Liu S, Liu X, Loppnau P, Meiler J, Moretti R, Moroz YS, Muvva C, Oprea TI, Paige B, Pandit A, Park K, Poda G, Protopopov MV, Pütter V, Ravichandran R, Rognan D, Rosta E, Sabnis Y, Scott T, Seitova A, Sharma P, Sindt F, Song M, Steinmann C, Stevens R, Talagayev V, Tararina VV, Tarkhanova O, Tingey D, Trant JF, Treleaven D, Tropsha A, Walters P, Wells J, Westermaier Y, Wolber G, Wortmann L, Zheng S, Fraser JS, Schapira M
J Chem Inf Model. 2026-1-22 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5c02441
PMID: 41565251Wang X, Sun J, Ahmad S, Yang D, Li F, Chan UH, Zeng H, Simoben CV, Green SR, Silva M, 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, Owen DR, Harding R, Schapira M, Brown PJ, Santhakumar V, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith CH, Edwards AM, Peng H, Halabelian L
Nat Commun. 2025-12-18 . .doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-67403-2
PMID: 41407727Kröll-Hermi A, Stoetzel C, Etard C, Halabelian L, Schaefer E, Scheidecker S, Kahrizi K, Payman J, Geoffroy V, Prasad M, Obringer C, Ruch L, Girard A, Zeng H, Li F, Plassard D, Keime C, Mattioli F, Feger C, Piton A, Fujita A, Matsumoto N, Castro MAA, Ae KC, Ruaud L, Levy J, Dozières B, Tabet AC, Wentzensen IM, Santiago-Sim T, Yusupov R, Tveten K, Smeland MF, Alkhunaizi E, Cowing G, Li C, Wortmann SB, Feichtinger RG, Mayr JA, Gonorazky H, Jing G, Wang X, Wang J, Bierhals T, Grinstein L, Herget T, Ruiz A, Gabau E, Kampmeier A, Kassel O, Kuechler A, Platzer K, Jamra RA, Woerner A, Idleburg M, Kircher SG, Laccone F, Golob B, Peterlin B, Čuturilo G, Tasic V, Kolvenbach CM, Hildebrandt F, Ramos LLP, Kok F, Buck CB, van de Laar IMBH, de Man SA, Taşdelen E, Sezer A, Büke A, Yavuz Z, Çomoğlu SS, Costin C, Tran Mau Them F, Lacaze E, Courtin T, Héron D, Keren B, Whalen S, Roume J, Yang Y, Hoffer MJV, van Haeringen A, Najmabadi H, Arrowsmith CH, Strähle U, Dollfus H, Muller J
Am J Hum Genet. 2025-11-20 . .doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.10.014
PMID: 41260215Keogh MC, Almouzni G, Andrews AJ, Armache KJ, Arrowsmith CH, Baek SH, Bedford MT, Bernstein E, Côté J, David Y, Denu JM, Fierz B, Garcia BA, Glass KC, Gozani O, Helin K, Henikoff S, Jensen ON, Josefowicz SZ, Kelleher NL, Kutateladze TG, Lindner HH, Lu C, Luger K, Mallick P, Musselman CA, Muir TW, Paša-Tolić L, Schneider R, Shi X, Shi Y, Sidoli S, Smith LM, Tyler JK, Wolberger C, Workman JL, Strahl BD, Young NL
Mol Cell. 2025-10-4 . 85(19):3554-3561 .doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.08.029
PMID: 41043390Fraser BJ, Young NJ, Bender BJ, Gahbauer S, Ilyassov O, Wilson RP, Li Y, Seitova A, Lourenço AL, Chung DH, Bardine C, Bénard F, Shoichet BK, Craik CS, Arrowsmith CH
J Med Chem. 2025-9-20 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c03089
PMID: 40973081Anacleto J, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith C, Wolf E, Leblanc Y, Lento C, Wilson DJ
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2025-9-15 . .doi: 10.1021/jasms.5c00229
PMID: 40952355Shrestha S, Maitland MER, Jing L, Duan S, Nie DY, St-Germain J, Kanaris M, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B
Nat Commun. 2025-8-31 . 16(1):8089 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63357-7
PMID: 40883309Kimani SW, Noureldin M, Wilson B, Hoffer L, Green SR, Szewczyk MM, González-Álvarez H, Mohammed M, Chan M, Krausser C, Li ASM, Hajian T, Tucker S, Joshi D, Saraon P, Thériault B, Kim JS, Santhakumar V, Loppnau P, Li Y, Seitova A, Dong A, Kiyota T, Hammann T, Gehrtz P, Patel B, Rathod V, Vala A, Rout B, Jagodra P, Brown PJ, Aman A, Ramnauth J, Poda G, Uehling D, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Marcellus R, Ackloo S, Mamai A, Al-Awar R, Halabelian L
Commun Biol. 2025-7-20 . 8(1):1076 .doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-08491-0
PMID: 40683980Muthu Ramalingam B, Oh HJ, Sears JD, Chen CH, Vala A, Liu S, Talbot KM, Hossain MA, Brown PJ, Houliston S, Garcia Perez J, Li F, Amare MG, Halfmann P, Smith JL, Hirsch AJ, Arrowsmith CH, Halabelian L, Vargason A, Couñago RM, Arnold JJ, Cameron CE, Moorman NJ, Heise MT, Willson TM
ACS Infect Dis. 2025-7-18 . .doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.5c00351
PMID: 40680191