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).

2024

PRMT1 inhibition perturbs RNA metabolism and induces DNA damage in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Walton J, Ng ASN, Arevalo K, Apostoli A, Meens J, Karamboulas C, St-Germain J, Prinos P, Dmytryshyn J, Chen E, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B, Ailles L

Nat Commun. 2024-9-20 . 15(1):8232 .doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52507-y

PMID: 39300069

A chemical screen identifies PRMT5 as a therapeutic vulnerability for paclitaxel-resistant triple-negative breast cancer.

Zhang K, Wei J, Zhang S, Fei L, Guo L, Liu X, Ji Y, Chen W, Ciamponi FE, Chen W, Li M, Zhai J, Fu T, Massirer KB, Yu Y, Lupien M, Wei Y, Arrowsmith CH, Wu Q, Tan W

Cell Chem Biol. 2024-8-21 . .doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2024.08.003

PMID: 39232499

A ligand discovery toolbox for the WWE domain family of human E3 ligases.

Münzker L, Kimani SW, Fowkes MM, Dong A, Zheng H, Li Y, Dasovich M, Zak KM, Leung AKL, Elkins JM, Kessler D, Arrowsmith CH, Halabelian L, Böttcher J

Commun Biol. 2024-7-24 . 7(1):901 .doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-06584-w

PMID: 39048679

Huntingtin is an RNA binding protein and participates in NEAT1-mediated paraspeckles.

Yadav M, Harding RJ, Li T, Xu X, Gall-Duncan T, Khan M, Bardile CF, Sequiera GL, Duan S, Chandrasekaran R, Pan A, Bu J, Yamazaki T, Hirose T, Prinos P, Tippett L, Turner C, Curtis MA, Faull RLM, Pouladi MA, Pearson CE, He HH, Arrowsmith CH

Sci Adv. 2024-7-19 . 10(29):eado5264 .doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado5264

PMID: 39028820

Recruitment of FBXO22 for targeted degradation of NSD2.

Nie DY, Tabor JR, Li J, Kutera M, St-Germain J, Hanley RP, Wolf E, Paulakonis E, Kenney TMG, Duan S, Shrestha S, Owens DDG, Maitland MER, Pon A, Szewczyk M, Lamberto AJ, Menes M, Li F, Penn LZ, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Brown NG, Barsotti AM, Stamford AW, Collins JL, Wilson DJ, Raught B, Licht JD, James LI, Arrowsmith CH

Nat Chem Biol. 2024-7-4 . .doi: 10.1038/s41589-024-01660-y

PMID: 38965384

Subpocket Similarity-Based Hit Identification for Challenging Targets: Application to the WDR Domain of LRRK2.

Eguida M, Bret G, Sindt F, Li F, Chau I, Ackloo S, Arrowsmith C, Bolotokova A, Ghiabi P, Gibson E, Halabelian L, Houliston S, Harding RJ, Hutchinson A, Loppnau P, Perveen S, Seitova A, Zeng H, Schapira M, Rognan D

J Chem Inf Model. 2024-6-25 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00601

PMID: 38916159

A chemical probe to modulate human GID4 Pro/N-degron interactions.

Owens DDG, Maitland MER, Khalili Yazdi A, Song X, Reber V, Schwalm MP, Machado RAC, Bauer N, Wang X, Szewczyk MM, Dong C, Dong A, Loppnau P, Calabrese MF, Dowling MS, Lee J, Montgomery JI, O'Connell TN, Subramanyam C, Wang F, Adamson EC, Schapira M, Gstaiger M, Knapp S, Vedadi M, Min J, Lajoie GA, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Owen DR, Schild-Poulter C, Arrowsmith CH

Nat Chem Biol. 2024-5-21 . .doi: 10.1038/s41589-024-01618-0

PMID: 38773330

Discovery of a Potent, Selective, and Cell-Active SPIN1 Inhibitor.

Xiong Y, Greschik H, Johansson C, Seifert L, Gamble V, Park KS, Fagan V, Li F, Chau I, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Brennan P, Fedorov O, Jung M, Farnie G, Liu J, Oppermann U, Schüle R, Jin J

J Med Chem. 2024-3-27 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00121

PMID: 38533580

Chemical tools for the Gid4 subunit of the human E3 ligase C-terminal to LisH (CTLH) degradation complex.

Yazdi AK, Perveen S, Dong C, Song X, Dong A, Szewczyk MM, Calabrese MF, Casimiro-Garcia A, Chakrapani S, Dowling MS, Ficici E, Lee J, Montgomery JI, O'Connell TN, Skrzypek GJ, Tran TP, Troutman MD, Wang F, Young JA, Min J, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Brown PJ, Santhakumar V, Arrowsmith CH, Vedadi M, Owen DR

RSC Med Chem. 2024-3-20 . 15(3):1066-1071 .doi: 10.1039/d3md00633f

PMID: 38516600