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).

2015

Kinetic characterization of human histone H3 lysine 36 methyltransferases, ASH1L and SETD2.

Eram MS, Kuznetsova E, Li F, Lima-Fernandes E, Kennedy S, Chau I, Arrowsmith CH, Schapira M, Vedadi M

Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 2015-5-19 . .doi: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2015.05.013

PMID: 26002201

Solution-state NMR structure of the putative morphogene protein BolA (PFE0790c) from Plasmodium falciparum.

Buchko GW, Yee A, Semesi A, Myler PJ, Arrowsmith CH, Hui R

Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 2015-4-18 . 71(Pt 5):514-21 .doi: 10.1107/S2053230X1402799X

PMID: 25945703

Discovery of a Dual PRMT5-PRMT7 Inhibitor.

Smil D, Eram MS, Li F, Kennedy S, Szewczyk MM, Brown PJ, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M, Schapira M

ACS Med Chem Lett. 2015-4-9 . 6(4):408-12 .doi: 10.1021/ml500467h

PMID: 25893041

LLY-507, a Cell-Active, Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Protein Lysine Methyltransferase SMYD2.

Nguyen H, Allali-Hassani A, Antonysamy S, Chang S, Chen LH, Curtis C, Emtage S, Fan L, Gheyi T, Li F, Liu S, Martin JR, Mendel D, Olsen JB, Pelletier L, Shatseva T, Wu S, Zhang FF, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Campbell RM, Garcia BA, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Mader M, Vedadi M

J. Biol. Chem.. 2015-3-30 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.626861

PMID: 25825497

A Potent, Selective and Cell-Active Allosteric Inhibitor of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 3 (PRMT3).

Kaniskan HÜ, Szewczyk MM, Yu Z, Eram MS, Yang X, Schmidt K, Luo X, Dai M, He F, Zang I, Lin Y, Kennedy S, Li F, Dobrovetsky E, Dong A, Smil D, Min SJ, Landon M, Lin-Jones J, Huang XP, Roth BL, Schapira M, Atadja P, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Arrowsmith CH, Brown PJ, Zhao K, Jin J, Vedadi M

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.. 2015-2-27 . .doi: 10.1002/anie.201412154

PMID: 25728001

Preclinical target validation using patient-derived cells.

Edwards AM, Arrowsmith CH, Bountra C, Bunnage ME, Feldmann M, Knight JC, Patel DD, Prinos P, Taylor MD, Sundström M, Barker P, Barsyte D, Bengtson MH, Bell C, Bowness P, Boycott KM, Buser-Doepner C, Carpenter CL, Carr AJ, Clark K, Das AM, Dhanak D, Dirks P, Ellis J, Fantin VR, Flores C, Fon EA, Frail DE, Gileadi O, O'Hagan RC, Howe T, Isaac JT, Jabado N, Jakobsson PJ, Klareskog L, Knapp S, Lee WH, Lima-Fernandes E, Lundberg IE, Marshall J, Massirer KB, MacKenzie AE, Maruyama T, Mueller-Fahrnow A, Muthuswamy S, Nanchahal J, O'Brien C, Oppermann U, Ostermann N, Petrecca K, Pollock BG, Poupon V, Prinjha RK, Rosenberg SH, Rouleau G, Skingle M, Slutsky AS, Smith GA, Verhelle D, Widmer H, Young LT

Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2015-2-20 . 14(3):149-50 .doi: 10.1038/nrd4565

PMID: 25722227

Identification of a Fragment-like Small Molecule Ligand for the Methyl-lysine Binding Protein, 53BP1.

Perfetti MT, Baughman BM, Dickson BM, Mu Y, Cui G, Mader P, Dong A, Norris JL, Rothbart SB, Strahl BD, Brown PJ, Janzen WP, Arrowsmith CH, Mer G, McBride KM, James LI, Frye SV

ACS Chem. Biol.. 2015-1-15 . .doi: 10.1021/cb500956g

PMID: 25590533

2014

A global assessment of cancer genomic alterations in epigenetic mechanisms.

Shah MA, Denton EL, Arrowsmith CH, Lupien M, Schapira M

Epigenetics Chromatin. 2014-12-4 . 7(1):29 .doi: 10.1186/1756-8935-7-29

PMID: 25484917

Structure and function of dioxygenases in histone demethylation and DNA/RNA demethylation.

Dong C, Zhang H, Xu C, Arrowsmith CH, Min J

IUCrJ. 2014-11-1 . 1(Pt 6):540-549 .doi: 10.1107/S2052252514020922

PMID: 25485134

(R)-PFI-2 is a potent and selective inhibitor of SETD7 methyltransferase activity in cells.

Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Li F, Oudhoff MJ, Tatlock JH, Dong A, Zeng H, Wu H, Freeman SA, Schapira M, Senisterra GA, Kuznetsova E, Marcellus R, Allali-Hassani A, Kennedy S, Lambert JP, Couzens AL, Aman A, Gingras AC, Al-Awar R, Fish PV, Gerstenberger BS, Roberts L, Benn CL, Grimley RL, Braam MJ, Rossi FM, Sudol M, Brown PJ, Bunnage ME, Owen DR, Zaph C, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 2014-8-18 . .doi: 10.1073/pnas.1407358111

PMID: 25136132