Nathanael S. Gray is a Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University and director of cancer therapeutics programme at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously he was a Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

and professor of cancer biology at

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research institution in Boston, Massachusetts. Dana–Farber is the founding member of Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard's Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by ...

. Gray is also co-founder, science advisory board member (SAB) and equity holder in C4 Therapeutics, Gatekeeper, Syros, Petra, B2S, Aduro, Jengu, Allorion, Inception Therapeutics, and Soltego (board member). C4 Therapeutics, which offered IPO in 2020, was founded based on the ground-breaking research of Jay Bradner, current president of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), and of Nathanael S. Gray, while he was professor at

. Before moving to Stanford University, Nathanael S. Gray created Center for Protein Degradation at

with $80 million agreement with Deerfield Management venture capital firm. In 2020, Gray Lab permanently moved to Stanford University, that was stated by

Stuart Schreiber Stuart L. Schreiber (born 6 February 1956) is a scientist at Harvard University and co-Founder of the Broad Institute. He has been active in chemical biology, especially the use of small molecules as probes of biology and medicine. Small molecul ...

, co-founder of

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as "Stanford's huge gain".

Career

Gray grew up in Zambia, Yemen, India and Sudan and moved to California for high school. Nathanael Gray received his BS and PhD in organic chemistry from

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

in 1999 where he discovered purvalanol. He worked at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego where he supervised a group of over fifty researchers as the director of biological chemistry. He moved to Harvard Medical School and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in 2006. Among the discoveries his lab has made are Torin1, an ATP-competitive mTOR inhibitor, BMK1, an inhibitor of ERK5, and inhibitors of EGFR, mTor, Bcr-Abl, Mps1, Erk5, b-Raf and Ephrin kinases.

Awards

* 2007

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

Career award * 2008 Damon Runyon Foundation Innovator award * 2010 American Association for Cancer Research for Team Science * 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Outstanding Achievement Award * 2011

Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry The Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry was established in 1934. Consisting of a bronze medal and honorarium, its purpose is to stimulate fundamental research in biological chemistry by scientists not over thirty-eight years of age. The Award i ...

* 2011 American Chemical Society award for Biological Chemistry * 2013

Meyenburg Prize The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The pri ...

* 2019 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research

References

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