Dr.
Anthony James Pawson
(
–
)
1952
2013
University of Toronto; Mount Sinai Hospital
;
Toronto, Canada
Cell biologist; Geneticist; Educator; Research institution staff member and administrator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Elected
2004
International Honorary Member
University Professor of Medical Genetics and Microbiology. Fundamentally changed the view of cellular regulation and signal transduction. Discovered the Src homology 2 domain and showed that tyrosine kinases exert effects through modular protein-protein interactions. Went on to establish that interaction domains provide a general paradigm through which cells are organized.
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