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).
Han Z, Wu H, Kim S, Yang X, Li Q, Huang H, Cai H, Bartlett MG, Dong A, Zeng H, Brown PJ, Yang X, Arrowsmith CH, Zhao Y, Zheng YG
J. Biol. Chem.. 2018-1-10 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.000529
PMID: 29321206Kaniskan HÜ, Eram MS, Zhao K, Szewczyk MM, Yang X, Schmidt K, Luo X, Xiao S, Dai M, He F, Zang I, Lin Y, Li F, Dobrovetsky E, Smil D, Min SJ, Lin-Jones J, Schapira M, Atadja P, Li E, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Liu F, Yu Z, Vedadi M, Jin J
J. Med. Chem.. 2017-12-15 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01674
PMID: 29244490Dahlin JL, Nelson KM, Strasser JM, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Szewczyk MM, Organ S, Cuellar M, Singh G, Shrimp JH, Nguyen N, Meier JL, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Baell JB, Walters MA
Nat Commun. 2017-11-15 . 8(1):1527 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01657-3
PMID: 29142305Houliston RS, Lemak A, Iqbal A, Ivanochko D, Duan S, Kaustov L, Ong MS, Fan L, Senisterra G, Brown PJ, Wang YX, Arrowsmith CH
J. Biol. Chem.. 2017-10-26 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.799700
PMID: 29074623Schapira M, Tyers M, Torrent M, Arrowsmith CH
Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2017-10-13 . .doi: 10.1038/nrd.2017.179
PMID: 29026209Harding RJ, Ferreira de Freitas R, Collins PM, Franzoni I, Ravichandran M, Ouyang H, Juarez-Ornelas KA, Lautens M, Schapira M, von Delft F, Santhakumar V, Arrowsmith CH
J. Med. Chem.. 2017-10-11 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00933
PMID: 29019676Mello SS, Valente LJ, Raj N, Seoane JA, Flowers BM, McClendon J, Bieging-Rolett KT, Lee J, Ivanochko D, Kozak MM, Chang DT, Longacre TA, Koong AC, Arrowsmith CH, Kim SK, Vogel H, Wood LD, Hruban RH, Curtis C, Attardi LD
Cancer Cell. 2017-10-9 . 32(4):460-473.e6 .doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2017.09.007
PMID: 29017057Park NI, Guilhamon P, Desai K, McAdam RF, Langille E, O'Connor M, Lan X, Whetstone H, Coutinho FJ, Vanner RJ, Ling E, Prinos P, Lee L, Selvadurai H, Atwal G, Kushida M, Clarke ID, Voisin V, Cusimano MD, Bernstein M, Das S, Bader G, Arrowsmith CH, Angers S, Huang X, Lupien M, Dirks PB
Cell Stem Cell. 2017-9-7 . 21(3):411 .doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2017.08.008
PMID: 28886368Lan X, Jörg DJ, Cavalli FMG, Richards LM, Nguyen LV, Vanner RJ, Guilhamon P, Lee L, Kushida MM, Pellacani D, Park NI, Coutinho FJ, Whetstone H, Selvadurai HJ, Che C, Luu B, Carles A, Moksa M, Rastegar N, Head R, Dolma S, Prinos P, Cusimano MD, Das S, Bernstein M, Arrowsmith CH, Mungall AJ, Moore RA, Ma Y, Gallo M, Lupien M, Pugh TJ, Taylor MD, Hirst M, Eaves CJ, Simons BD, Dirks PB
Nature. 2017-8-30 . .doi: 10.1038/nature23666
PMID: 28854171Rocklin GJ, Chidyausiku TM, Goreshnik I, Ford A, Houliston S, Lemak A, Carter L, Ravichandran R, Mulligan VK, Chevalier A, Arrowsmith CH, Baker D
Science. 2017-7-14 . 357(6347):168-175 .doi: 10.1126/science.aan0693
PMID: 28706065