Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist. He graduated from the

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with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the

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with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, where he studied with George Kenyon. He was John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy and Professor of Biological Chemistry at

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. In 2001, he moved to the

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to assume roles as Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2005 until 2010. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. From January 2012 to August 2014, Marletta was president and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, succeeding

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. Marletta is currently Ch and Annie Li Chair in the Molecular Biology of Diseases at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009, Marletta helped

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return to UC Berkeley after working a short stint at Genentech; Doudna would later win the 2020

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with

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for her work on CRISPR after returning to UC Berkeley from Genentech.

Awards

* 2018 Honorary Doctor of Science, State University of New York *2016 Elected to the

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*2006 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences *2004 Harrison Howe Awardee *1999 Elected to the Institute of Medicine *1995 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

"Nitric-Oxide Synthase Assays"
''Oxygen radicals in biological systems'', Editor Lester Packer, Elsevier, 1994,
"Biochemistry of Soluble Guanulate Cyclase"
''CGMP: Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications'', Editors Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Franz Hofmann, Johannes-Peter Stasch, Springer, 2009,

References

External links

Michael A. Marletta"
''Scientific Commons''
The Marletta lab at UC Berkeley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marletta, Michael American biochemists University of California, San Francisco alumni Howard Hughes Medical Investigators State University of New York at Fredonia alumni University of Michigan faculty UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty Living people MacArthur Fellows Scripps Research faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the American Philosophical Society Members of the National Academy of Medicine Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Scientists from New York (state)