Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

SGC Toronto

Arrowsmith

Biography

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).

2017

The EED protein-protein interaction inhibitor A-395 inactivates the PRC2 complex.

He Y, Selvaraju S, Curtin ML, Jakob CG, Zhu H, Comess KM, Shaw B, The J, Lima-Fernandes E, Szewczyk MM, Cheng D, Klinge KL, Li HQ, Pliushchev M, Algire MA, Maag D, Guo J, Dietrich J, Panchal SC, Petros AM, Sweis RF, Torrent M, Bigelow LJ, Senisterra G, Li F, Kennedy S, Wu Q, Osterling DJ, Lindley DJ, Gao W, Galasinski S, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Vedadi M, Buchanan FG, Arrowsmith CH, Chiang GG, Sun C, Pappano WN

Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2017-1-30 . .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2306

PMID: 28135237

Discovery of Potent and Selective Inhibitors for G9a-Like Protein (GLP) Lysine Methyltransferase.

Xiong Y, Li F, Babault N, Dong A, Zeng H, Wu H, Chen X, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Liu J, Vedadi M, Jin J

J. Med. Chem.. 2017-1-30 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01645

PMID: 28135087

The SUV4-20 inhibitor A-196 verifies a role for epigenetics in genomic integrity.

Bromberg KD, Mitchell TR, Upadhyay AK, Jakob CG, Jhala MA, Comess KM, Lasko LM, Li C, Tuzon CT, Dai Y, Li F, Eram MS, Nuber A, Soni NB, Manaves V, Algire MA, Sweis RF, Torrent M, Schotta G, Sun C, Michaelides MR, Shoemaker AR, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Santhakumar V, Martin A, Rice JC, Chiang GG, Vedadi M, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Pappano WN

Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2017-1-23 . .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2282

PMID: 28114273

Epigenetic siRNA and Chemical Screens Identify SETD8 Inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy for p53 Activation in High-Risk Neuroblastoma.

Veschi V, Liu Z, Voss TC, Ozbun L, Gryder B, Yan C, Hu Y, Ma A, Jin J, Mazur SJ, Lam N, Souza BK, Giannini G, Hager GL, Arrowsmith CH, Khan J, Appella E, Thiele CJ

Cancer Cell. 2017-1-9 . 31(1):50-63 .doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.12.002

PMID: 28073004

2016

Early-life antibiotic treatment enhances the pathogenicity of CD4+ T cells during intestinal inflammation.

Scheer S, Medina TS, Murison A, Taves MD, Antignano F, Chenery A, Soma KK, Perona-Wright G, Lupien M, Arrowsmith CH, De Carvalho DD, Zaph C

J. Leukoc. Biol.. 2016-12-29 . .doi: 10.1189/jlb.3MA0716-334RR

PMID: 28034915

Integrated (epi)-Genomic Analyses Identify Subgroup-Specific Therapeutic Targets in CNS Rhabdoid Tumors.

Torchia J, Golbourn B, Feng S, Ho KC, Sin-Chan P, Vasiljevic A, Norman JD, Guilhamon P, Garzia L, Agamez NR, Lu M, Chan TS, Picard D, de Antonellis P, Khuong-Quang DA, Planello AC, Zeller C, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Lafay-Cousin L, Letourneau L, Bourgey M, Yu M, Gendoo DM, Dzamba M, Barszczyk M, Medina T, Riemenschneider AN, Morrissy AS, Ra YS, Ramaswamy V, Remke M, Dunham CP, Yip S, Ng HK, Lu JQ, Mehta V, Albrecht S, Pimentel J, Chan JA, Somers GR, Faria CC, Roque L, Fouladi M, Hoffman LM, Moore AS, Wang Y, Choi SA, Hansford JR, Catchpoole D, Birks DK, Foreman NK, Strother D, Klekner A, Bognár L, Garami M, Hauser P, Hortobágyi T, Wilson B, Hukin J, Carret AS, Van Meter TE, Hwang EI, Gajjar A, Chiou SH, Nakamura H, Toledano H, Fried I, Fults D, Wataya T, Fryer C, Eisenstat DD, Scheinemann K, Fleming AJ, Johnston DL, Michaud J, Zelcer S, Hammond R, Afzal S, Ramsay DA, Sirachainan N, Hongeng S, Larbcharoensub N, Grundy RG, Lulla RR, Fangusaro JR, Druker H, Bartels U, Grant R, Malkin D, McGlade CJ, Nicolaides T, Tihan T, Phillips J, Majewski J, Montpetit A, Bourque G, Bader GD, Reddy AT, Gillespie GY, Warmuth-Metz M, Rutkowski S, Tabori U, Lupien M, Brudno M, Schüller U, Pietsch T, Judkins AR, Hawkins CE, Bouffet E, Kim SK, Dirks PB, Taylor MD, Erdreich-Epstein A, Arrowsmith CH, De Carvalho DD, Rutka JT, Jabado N, Huang A

Cancer Cell. 2016-12-12 . 30(6):891-908 .doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.11.003

PMID: 27960086

Structure-Based Design of a Covalent Inhibitor of the SET Domain-Containing Protein 8 (SETD8) Lysine Methyltransferase.

Butler KV, Ma A, Yu W, Li F, Tempel W, Babault N, Pittella-Silva F, Shao J, Wang J, Luo M, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Jin J

J. Med. Chem.. 2016-11-2 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01244

PMID: 27804297

Solution NMR structure of the HLTF HIRAN domain: a conserved module in SWI2/SNF2 DNA damage tolerance proteins.

Korzhnev DM, Neculai D, Dhe-Paganon S, Arrowsmith CH, Bezsonova I

J. Biomol. NMR. 2016-10-22 . .doi: 10.1007/s10858-016-0070-9

PMID: 27771863

Hemi-methylated DNA regulates DNA methylation inheritance through allosteric activation of H3 ubiquitylation by UHRF1.

Harrison JS, Cornett EM, Goldfarb D, DaRosa PA, Li ZM, Yan F, Dickson BM, Guo AH, Cantu DV, Kaustov L, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Erie DA, Major MB, Klevit RE, Krajewski K, Kuhlman B, Strahl BD, Rothbart SB

Elife. 2016-9-7 . 5: .doi: 10.7554/eLife.17101

PMID: 27595565

Discovery of a Potent, Selective and Cell-active Dual Inhibitor of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 4 and Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 6.

Shen Y, Szewczyk MM, Eram MS, Smil D, Kaniskan HÜ, de Freitas RF, Senisterra G, Li F, Schapira M, Brown PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Liu J, Vedadi M, Jin J

J. Med. Chem.. 2016-9-1 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01033

PMID: 27584694