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

Probing the epigenome.

Huston A, Arrowsmith CH, Knapp S, Schapira M

Nat. Chem. Biol.. 2015-7-21 . 11(8):542-5 .doi: 10.1038/nchembio.1871

PMID: 26196765

The promise and peril of chemical probes.

Arrowsmith 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: 26196764

Pharmacological targeting of the Wdr5-MLL interaction in C/EBPα N-terminal leukemia.

Grebien 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: 26167872

Assessment of a method to characterize antibody selectivity and specificity for use in immunoprecipitation.

Marcon 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: 26121405

Discovery of A-893, A New Cell-Active Benzoxazinone Inhibitor of Lysine Methyltransferase SMYD2.

Sweis 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

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