Cheryl Hillock Arrowsmith (born 1959)[1] is an American-Canadian structural biologist. She is the Chief Scientist at the Toronto laboratory of the Structural Genomics Consortium. Her contributions to protein structural biology includes the use of NMR and X-ray crystallography to pursue structures of proteins on a proteome wide scale.
Early life and education
Arrowsmith was born in 1959 in Hackensack, New Jersey. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree at Allegheny College and her PhD in chemistry at the University of Toronto in 1987.[2] While completing her PhD, Arrowsmith became interested in tumour suppressor p53 and related proteins after taking a course in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This motivated her to complete her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University with Oleg Jardetzky in his Magnetic Resonance Lab.[3]