Don W. Cleveland

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Don W. Cleveland
Marc W. Kirschner
Other academic advisorsWilliam Rutter

Don W. Cleveland (born 1950 in

Waynesville, MO) is an American cancer biologist and neurobiologist
.

Cleveland is currently the Department Chair of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

University of California at San Diego, and Head, Laboratory for Cell Biology at the San Diego branch of Ludwig Cancer Research.[3]

Biography

Cleveland grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He earned a B.S. in physics in 1972 from New Mexico State University, and graduated as the valedictorian for the College of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Cleveland started graduate school at Princeton University in 1972, switching mid-year into biochemistry. He worked with Marc Kirschner and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1977. Cleveland's doctoral dissertation was titled "Purification and properties of tau, a microtubule associated protein which induces assembly of microtubules from purified tubulin".[4] As a graduate student, Cleveland provided the initial identification and characterization of tau, showing it to have characteristics of a natively unfolded protein.[5] Tau is now recognized to accumulate in Alzheimer's disease and to be the basis for chronic brain injury.[6] He also developed and published a peptide fingerprinting technique[7] that was so popular that it became a citation classic [8] Cleveland did postdoctoral work with William J. Rutter at the University of California at San Francisco from 1978 to 1981. Cleveland was the first to clone tubulin[9][10] actin and keratin[11]

From 1981 through 1995, Cleveland was on the faculty of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the

University of California at San Diego
. Since 2008, he has been Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.

Contributions to Science

Cleveland has made pioneering discoveries of the mechanisms of chromosome movement and cell-cycle control during normal cellular division, as well as of the principles of neuronal cell development and their relationship to the defects that contribute to inherited neurodegenerative disease.[12] Cleveland's research looks at the molecular genetics of axonal growth and motor neuron disease and the cell biology of mammalian chromosome movement.[13]

Most recently, his research has achieved a significant breakthrough in treating Huntington's disease, an inherited and degenerative brain disorder for which there is no cure. A one-time injection of a new DNA-based drug treatment - known as ASO (short for antisense oligonucleotide) - blocked the activity of the gene whose mutation causes the disease. A single treatment silenced the mutated gene responsible for the disease, slowing and partially reversing progression of the fatal neurodegenerative disorder in animal models.[14] This drug, called IONIS-HTTRx, was developed by scientists at Ionis Pharmaceuticals in collaboration with partners CHDI Foundation, Roche Pharmaceuticals and academic collaborators at University of California, San Diego and is now in a Phase 1/2a clinical study.[15]

Books

Cell and Molecular Biology of the Cytoskeleton: Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Tubulin Synthesis Edited by Jerry W. Shay (Plenum Press, 1986),

ISBN 978-1-4612-9269-2

With Toni L. Williamson, Mouse Models in the Study of Genetic Neurological Disorders: Mouse Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Edited by Brian Popko (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999),

ISBN 0-306-45965-5

With Nicholas G. Theodorakis, Control of Messenger RNA Stability: Translationally Coupled Degradation of Tubulin mRNA Edited by Joel Belasco and George Brawerman (Academic Press, Inc., 1993)

ISBN 0-12-084782-5

Select honors

References

  1. ^ "Don Cleveland Named New Chair Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine". Debra Kain. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Four Department of Medicine Faculty Members Are on 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers List". News From The Department of Medicine. Regents of the University of California. Archived from the original on January 24, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "DON CLEVELAND LAB". DON CLEVELAND LAB. LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH LTD. Archived from the original on December 12, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Cleveland, Don W. (1977). Purification and properties of tau, a microtubule associated protein which induces assembly of microtubules from purified tubulin.
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  12. ^ "Dr. Don Cleveland of Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research elected to Institute of Medicine". EurekAlert!. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  13. ^ "UC San Diego Researchers Cited Among "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds"". UC San Diego News Center. UC San Diego.
  14. ^ "Potential treatment for Huntington's disease, found effective, safe in mice, monkeys". EurekAlert!. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  15. ^ "Huntington's Drug That Silences Gene at Root of Disease Now in Phase 1 Clinical Test". Huntington's Disease News. BioNews Services LLC.
  16. ^ "UCSD Faculty Members of the National Academy of Sciences". UC San Diego.
  17. ^ "Two from UCSD School of Medicine Named Members of the Institute of Medicine".
  18. ^ American Academy of Arts & Sciences. "Six UCSD scholars elected fellows of American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
  19. ^ "ASM Society Directory". American Society for Microbiology. Archived from the original on May 25, 2017. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  20. ^ "ASM Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences" (PDF). American Society for Microbiology. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  21. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". December 18, 2009.
  22. ^ "President's Column" (PDF). The American Society for Cell Biology.
  23. ^ "The Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research".
  24. ^ "Wings Over Wall Street Diamond Award".
  25. ^ "2012 Commencement and Academic Convocation". June 13, 2012.
  26. ^ "A Night at the Esseys". June 5, 2014.
  27. ^ "Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring and Postdoctoral Scholar Awards". September 18, 2014.
  28. ^ "Ludwig scientists named to Thomson Reuters' list of world's most influential scientific minds". Ludwig Cancer Research. 2016 LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH LTD. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  29. ^ "Breakthrough Prize – Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize – Laureates". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  30. ^ Foundation, Nomis. "Don W. Cleveland, NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardee 2018". Nomis Foundation. 2016 The NOMIS Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  31. ^ "American Society for Cell Biology announces 2022 honorific awards and recognition".

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