Mark A. Lemmon - Deputy Chair

Mark Lemmon was educated in Norwich, and received his BA (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford (Hertford College) in 1988. After graduation, Mark went to Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry to work with Don Engelman for his MPhil and PhD in membrane protein folding. In 1993, he moved to Yossi Schlessinger's lab at New York University Medical Center (Pharmacology) in Manhattan, as a Damon Runyon Fellow, where he worked on mechanisms of receptor tyrosine kinase signalling among other things. In 1996, Mark took a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (and Johnson Foundation) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. At Penn, Mark's laboratory has focused on mechanistic and structural aspects of signalling by growth factor receptors (especially the EGF receptor) and through phosphoinositides. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001, and to full Professor in 2004. Mark is currently the Secretary of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).