Gillian Small is currently the president of World Science University, the higher education arm of
World Science Festival
Previously, she was the University Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs a
Fairleigh Dickinson University
from 2016 through 2022. Prior to that, she served as the Vice Chancellor for Research at the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...

. Small received her PhD in the Biological Sciences in 1983 from Wolverhampton Polytechnic - now the University of Wolverhampton in England, where she also completed her undergraduate education in the Biological Sciences. She moved to the US in 1985 to conduct postdoctoral research at the

Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classif ...

in New York, in the laboratory of

Nobel Laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make out ...

Christian DeDuve Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared t ...

, a cytologist and

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

. Small's research focus is

organelle In cell biology, an organelle is a specialized subunit, usually within a cell, that has a specific function. The name ''organelle'' comes from the idea that these structures are parts of cells, as organs are to the body, hence ''organelle,'' the ...

biogenesis and

molecular A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion. In quantum physics, organic chemistry, and bioche ...

regulation of lipid metabolism; she has published and lectured widely in this area. Previously, Small served on the faculty at the University of Florida (1988), where she led her own independent research program to study

peroxisome A peroxisome () is a membrane-bound organelle, a type of microbody, found in the cytoplasm of virtually all eukaryotic cells. Peroxisomes are oxidative organelles. Frequently, molecular oxygen serves as a co-substrate, from which hydrogen pero ...

biogenesis and the

regulation of lipid metabolism. In 1992, she became a faculty member at

Mount Sinai School of Medicine The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eigh ...

in New York, where she directed a laboratory as well as served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in

Molecular A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion. In quantum physics, organic chemistry, and bioche ...

Cellular Cellular may refer to: *Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics * Cell biology, the evaluation of cells work and more * ''Cellular'' (film), a 2004 movie *Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands *Cell ...

, and

Developmental Biology Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of Regeneration (biology), regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and di ...

. At CUNY, Small was instrumental in redesigning

doctoral A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

education in the sciences and in enhancing the University’s scientific research infrastructure. She established CUNY’s first Postdoctoral Program for postdoctoral fellows across the University and the Technology Commercialization office. She also played a key role in establishing several new research institutes, and both envisioned and developed a ne
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Small, Gillian Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British emigrants to the United States University of Florida faculty City College of New York faculty Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton 21st-century American biologists