David Siderovski | |
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| Education |
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| Awards | ASPET's John J. Abel Award in 2004 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry Pharmacology Neuroscience Medical education |
| Institutions | Amgen Research Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill West Virginia University University of North Texas Health Science Center |
| Thesis | Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Trans-activator of Transcription (HIV-1 Tat) (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tak Wah Mak |
| Other academic advisors | Alfred G. Gilman Robert J. Lefkowitz |
David Siderovski is a North American pharmacologist. [1] From March 2020 to November 2025, Siderovski was Chair of the HSC Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. [2] From 2012 to 2019, he was the E.J. Van Liere Medicine Professor and Chair of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience for the West Virginia University School of Medicine. [3]
Siderovski attended Earl Haig Secondary School in North York, Ontario, [4] graduating in 1985. [5] In 1989, Siderovski graduated with a BSc from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. [6]
Siderovski began his PhD training at the University of Toronto in May 1989. During his fifth year of his PhD, he began full-time work as a research scientist in the Quantitative Biology Laboratory of the Amgen Research Institute, Toronto. [7] He successfully defended his PhD thesis in November 1997. [8] He left the Amgen Research Institute in December 1998, having contributed to three patents as a co-inventor. [9] [10] [11]
After completing his industrial postdoctoral position at the Amgen Research Institute in 1998, [7] Siderovski joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an assistant professor of pharmacology. [12] His earliest publications discuss the RGS protein superfamily, [13] [14] [15] [16] and determinations of their varied protein structures [17] [18] [19] and cellular functions. [20] [ better source needed ]
In 2004, Siderovski was named the top American Pharmacologist under 40 and awarded the John J. Abel Award by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. [21] [22] [ better source needed ]
From 2006 to 2012, Siderovski was the Thomas J. Dark Basic Science Director of UNC's Medical Scientist Training Program. [23] In August 2014, Siderovski was appointed Director of the West Virginia University School of Medicine MD/PhD Scholars Program. [24] Siderovski has been serving as Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Biological Chemistry since 2012. [25]