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1969 double alumnus and Nobel laureate
Alfred Gilman, M.D., Ph.D., named dean of UT
Had been serving as interim dean since May 2004
CLEVELAND (June 3,
2005) – Nobel laureate Alfred Gilman, who earned both his M.D. and Ph.D. in
pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University in 1969, was named dean of the
UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas on June 2, effective immediately. He
had been serving as interim dean of the institution since May 2004.
As dean, Gilman is the chief academic
officer of the institution, overseeing all faculty appointments and the
education of more than 800 medical students and 1,200 clinical residents in
training. He succeeds Robert Alpern, M.D., who left
the university to become dean and chief executive of the Yale University School
of Medicine.
Gilman’s association with UT Southwestern
began in 1981, when he joined the faculty as chair of pharmacology, a post he
will relinquish when a search committee identifies a successor.
The alumnus will continue to lead the
Gilman also will continue oversight of
the Cecil H. and
He holds the Nadine and Tom Craddick Distinguished Chair in Medical Science; the Raymond Willie and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology, in Honor of Harold B. Crasilneck, Ph.D.; and the Atticus James Gill, M.D., Chair in Medical Science.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in
biochemistry from Yale and his medical and doctorate degrees from Case, Gilman
completed his postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics
at the National Institutes of Health. In 1971, he began a 10-year stint in the
pharmacology department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine before
joining UT Southwestern.
In 1994, Gilman was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of G proteins and the role they
play in the complex processes by which cells communicate with each other. He is
one of three Nobel Prize winners who conducted research in the Case School of
Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology, the others being 1998 Nobel Prize
laureate Ferid Murad, who
earned both his M.D. and Ph.D. in pharmacology at the university in 1965, and
1971 Nobel laureate Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., M.D., professor and pharmacology
department director from 1953 to 1963, during Gilman’s and Murad’s
time as students.
Gilman is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
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