Dr. Joseph Schlessinger is the present chairman of the department of Pharmacology at Yale University, one of the most prestigious universities in the US. Previously he acted as the chairman of the dept. of Pharmacology at New York University and also as the director of the NYU Skirball research facility.
Prof. Schlessinger is deemed the father of Signal Transduction, an area of research essential for cancer research (and other fields). This research has already resulted in him receiving numerous awards, including the esteemed Dan David award (in 2006), and has resulted in the development of multiple drugs for the treatment of various cancers.
PubMed, the premier resource for academic publications lists 450 publications for Prof. Schlessinger. In 2003, the British newspaper The Guardian created a list of the greatest scientists of our era, or the “Giants of Science”, and placed Schlessinger at #14, a great honor.
In addition to his academic work, Dr. Schlessinger is involved with and starts biotech companies. His first company, which he co-founded with Dr. Axel Ullrich) was named Sugen, and developed a drug called Sutent for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor. This drug was approved by the FDA in 2006 in less than 6 months which marks the first time that the FDA has made an exception and had approved a new drug for two different conditions simultaneously. The drug was so potent it was considered immoral not to give it to sick patients.
Later on Dr. Schlessinger co-founded Plexxikon, a company which aims, by using state of the art ways, to rapidly create numerous types of drugs for treating multiple diseases.
It is our hope that Prof. Schlessinger continues doing this prolific research, as we all may gain from it one day, it gives hope to ill people, and cam be said to make the world a healthier place.
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