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).
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: 25722227Perfetti 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: 25590533Shah 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: 25484917Dong C, Zhang H, Xu C, Arrowsmith CH, Min J
IUCrJ. 2014-11-1 . 1(Pt 6):540-549 .doi: 10.1107/S2052252514020922
PMID: 25485134Barsyte-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: 25136132Ma A, Yu W, Li F, Bleich RM, Herold JM, Butler KV, Norris JL, Korboukh V, Tripathy A, Janzen WP, Arrowsmith CH, Frye SV, Vedadi M, Brown PJ, Jin J
J. Med. Chem.. 2014-7-17 . .doi: 10.1021/jm500871s
PMID: 25032507Ni Z, Xu C, Guo X, Hunter GO, Kuznetsova OV, Tempel W, Marcon E, Zhong G, Guo H, Kuo WH, Li J, Young P, Olsen JB, Wan C, Loppnau P, El Bakkouri M, Senisterra GA, He H, Huang H, Sidhu SS, Emili A, Murphy S, Mosley AL, Arrowsmith CH, Min J, Greenblatt JF
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol.. 2014-7-6 . .doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2853
PMID: 24997600Eram MS, Bustos SP, Lima-Fernandes E, Siarheyeva A, Senisterra G, Hajian T, Chau I, Duan S, Wu H, Dombrovski L, Schapira M, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M
J. Biol. Chem.. 2014-3-14 . .doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.523183
PMID: 24634223Allali-Hassani A, Kuznetsova E, Hajian T, Wu H, Dombrovski L, Li Y, Gräslund S, Arrowsmith CH, Schapira M, Vedadi M
J Biomol Screen. 2014-3-4 . .doi: 10.1177/1087057114525854
PMID: 24595546Camerino MA, Zhong N, Dong A, Dickson BM, James LI, Baughman BM, Norris JL, Kireev DB, Janzen WP, Arrowsmith CH, Frye SV
Medchemcomm. 2014-1-28 . 4(11):1501-1507 .doi: 10.1039/C3MD00197K
PMID: 24466405