Thomas Sakmar

Richard M. & Isabel P. Furlaud Professor

Thomas Sakmar is the Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor at The Rockefeller University where he heads the Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction. Dr. Sakmar uses interdisciplinary approaches to study the molecular mechanism of transmembrane signaling by G protein-coupled receptors. Dr. Sakmar received an A.B. in chemistry from the University of Chicago and his M.D. from Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. He carried out clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital before doing postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying DNA chemistry and gene synthesis. He has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Senior Scholar of the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Marie Krogh Visiting Professor at University of Copenhagen and Guest Professor at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Talks About
#MolecularBiology #ProteinChemistry #Science

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica