Craig M Crews Ph.D.

Lewis B. Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry and of Pharmacology; Executive Director, Yale Molecular Discovery Center


Departments & Organizations

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Cell Cycle and Signal Transduction; Drug Design, Discovery and Mechanism

Developmental Therapeutics

Center for RNA Science and Medicine, Yale

Postnatal Development & Regeneration

Pharmacology

Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center

Developmental Therapeutics

Biography

Craig Crews received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University. After postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, Dr. Crews joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is a Professor in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology. Since 2003, Dr. Crews has served as Executive Director of the Yale Center for Small Molecule Discovery. In addition to a Donaghue Foundation Young Investigator Award, Dr. Crews has received a Burroughs-Wellcome New Investigator Award, a CapCURE Research Award, the Friedrich Wilhem Bessel Award from the Humboldt Foundation and named an Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging. In 2005, Dr. Crews was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Education

  • B.A., University of Virginia , 1986
  • Ph.D., Harvard University , 1992

Selected Publication

  • Sundberg TB, Darricarrere N, Griesbach H, Slusarski DC and CM Crews. (2011) Wnt Planar Cell Polarity Signaling Disruption by Aberrant Accumulation of the MetAP-2 Substrate Rab37. Chemistry & Biology, 18(10):1300-11

Latest Honor and Recognition

  • Guest Professor(2010) , University of Konstanz