Michael A. Marletta is an American

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, where he studied with George Kenyon. He was John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy and Professor of Biological Chemistry at University of Michigan. In 2001, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley to assume roles as Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2005 until 2010. He was a

Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, fil ...

Investigator. From January 2012 to August 2014, Marletta was president and CEO of

The Scripps Research Institute Scripps Research, previously known as The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institu ...

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, succeeding Richard Lerner. Marletta is currently Ch and Annie Li Chair in the Molecular Biology of Diseases at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009, Marletta helped Jennifer Doudna return to UC Berkeley after working a short stint at

Genentech Genentech, Inc., is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It became an independent subsidiary of Roche in 2009. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent center within R ...

; Doudna would later win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for her work on

CRISPR CRISPR () (an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacte ...

after returning to UC Berkeley from Genentech.

Awards

* 2018 Honorary Doctor of Science,

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY, , ) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. It is one of the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Led by c ...

*2016 Elected to the American Philosophical Society *2006 Elected to the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

*2004 Harrison Howe Awardee *1999 Elected to the

Institute of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, E ...

*1995

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

Works

"Nitric-Oxide Synthase Assays"
''Oxygen radicals in biological systems'', Editor Lester Packer, Elsevier, 1994,
"Biochemistry of Soluble Guanulate Cyclase"
''CGMP: Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications'', Editors Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Franz Hofmann, Johannes-Peter Stasch, Springer, 2009,

References

External links

Michael A. Marletta"
''Scientific Commons''
The Marletta lab at UC Berkeley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marletta, Michael American biochemists University of California, San Francisco alumni Howard Hughes Medical Investigators State University of New York at Fredonia alumni University of Michigan faculty UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty Living people MacArthur Fellows Scripps Research faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the American Philosophical Society Members of the National Academy of Medicine Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Scientists from New York (state)