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).
Dilworth D, Hanley RP, Ferreira de Freitas R, Allali-Hassani A, Zhou M, Mehta N, Marunde MR, Ackloo S, Carvalho Machado RA, Khalili Yazdi A, Owens DDG, Vu V, Nie DY, Alqazzaz M, Marcon E, Li F, Chau I, Bolotokova A, Qin S, Lei M, Liu Y, Szewczyk MM, Dong A, Kazemzadeh S, Abramyan T, Popova IK, Hall NW, Meiners MJ, Cheek MA, Gibson E, Kireev D, Greenblatt JF, Keogh MC, Min J, Brown PJ, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, James LI, Schapira M
Nat Chem Biol. 2021-11-15 . .doi: 10.1038/s41589-021-00898-0
PMID: 34782742Guegueniat J, Halabelian L, Zeng H, Dong A, Li Y, Wu H, Arrowsmith CH, Kothe U
Nucleic Acids Res. 2021-10-28 . .doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab934
PMID: 34718722Saraon P, Snider J, Schormann W, Rai A, Radulovich N, Sánchez-Osuna M, Coulombe-Huntington J, Huard C, Mohammed M, Lima-Fernandes E, Thériault B, Halabelian L, Chan M, Joshi D, Drecun L, Yao Z, Pathmanathan S, Wong V, Lyakisheva A, Aboualizadeh F, Niu L, Li F, Kiyota T, Subramanian R, Joseph B, Aman A, Prakesch M, Isaac M, Mamai A, Poda G, Vedadi M, Marcellus R, Uehling D, Leighl N, Sacher A, Samaržija M, Jakopović M, Arrowsmith C, Tyers M, Tsao MS, Andrews D, Al-Awar R, Stagljar I
J Mol Biol. 2021-10-16 . 433(23):167294 .doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167294
PMID: 34662547Mann MK, Zepeda-Velázquez CA, González-Álvarez H, Dong A, Kiyota T, Aman AM, Loppnau P, Li Y, Wilson B, Arrowsmith CH, Al-Awar R, Harding RJ, Schapira M
J Med Chem. 2021-10-14 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00889
PMID: 34648286Lourenco C, Resetca D, Redel C, Lin P, MacDonald AS, Ciaccio R, Kenney TMG, Wei Y, Andrews DW, Sunnerhagen M, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B, Penn LZ
Nat Rev Cancer. 2021-6-29 . .doi: 10.1038/s41568-021-00367-9
PMID: 34188192Gradl S, Steuber H, Weiske J, Szewczyk MM, Schmees N, Siegel S, Stoeckigt D, Christ CD, Li F, Organ S, Abbey M, Kennedy S, Chau I, Trush V, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Brown PJ, Vedadi M, Arrowsmith C, Husemann M, Badock V, Bauser M, Haegebarth A, Hartung IV, Stresemann C
SLAS Discov. 2021-6-21 . 24725552211019409 .doi: 10.1177/24725552211019409
PMID: 34154424Resetca D, MacDonald AS, Kenney TMG, Wei Y, Arrowsmith CH, Raught B, Penn LZ
Methods Mol Biol. 2021-5-22 . 2318:45-67 .doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1476-1_4
PMID: 34019286Dölle A, Adhikari B, Krämer A, Weckesser J, Berner N, Berger LM, Diebold M, Szewczyk MM, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Arrowsmith CH, Gebel J, Löhr F, Dötsch V, Eilers M, Heinzlmeir S, Kuster B, Sotriffer C, Wolf E, Knapp S
J Med Chem. 2021-5-13 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00146
PMID: 33980013Wu Q, Schapira M, Arrowsmith CH, Barsyte-Lovejoy D
Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2021-3-19 . .doi: 10.1038/s41573-021-00159-8
PMID: 33742187Shen Y, Li F, Szewczyk MM, Halabelian L, Chau I, Eram MS, Dela Seña C, Park KS, Meng F, Chen H, Zeng H, McLeod D, Zepeda-Velázquez CA, Campbell RM, Mader MM, Watson BM, Schapira M, Arrowsmith CH, Al-Awar R, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Kaniskan HÜ, Brown PJ, Vedadi M, Jin J
J Med Chem. 2021-2-16 . .doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c02160
PMID: 33591753