Matthew P. Scott

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Matthew Peter "Matt" Scott (* 1953 ) is an American geneticist and developmental biologist at Stanford University School of Medicine . He has been President of the Carnegie Institution for Science since 2014 .

Scott studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received a Ph.D. from Mary Lou Pardue in 1980. entitled Translational control of protein synthesis in Drosophila . He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Thomas C. Kaufman and Barry Polisky at Indiana University . From 1983 he had his own laboratory at the University of Colorado, Boulder , before moving to the newly formed Department of Developmental Biology and the Department of Genetics at Stanford University in 1990. From 1998 to 2013 Scott also conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Scott made a significant contribution to the understanding of the genetic regulation of growth and differentiation . He was able to show that the genes that control these processes are highly conserved, that is, that these genes ( homeobox ) show a strong homology in different species such as fruit flies , mice or humans . Disruptions of these control genes can cause cancer in humans: Mutations in a gene that controls embryonic development in fruit flies triggers basaliomas in humans . He was also able to explain a genetic cause of the medulloblastoma .

In 1990 Scott received the Passano Young Scientist Award . In 1996 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1999 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1998 he was President of the Society for Developmental Biology , whose Edwin G. Conklin Medal he received in 2004. In 2013 Scott - together with Elaine Fuchs and Richard Peto - received the last Pasarow Award for cancer research.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthew P. Scott, Ph.D. In: hhmi.org. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  2. ^ Matthew P. Scott, PhD. In: hhmi.org. ( Memento from May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Past Recipients - The Passano Foundation, Inc. In: passanofoundation.org. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Matthew Scott. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  6. ^ Society for Developmental Biology - SDB Past Presidents. In: sdbonline.org. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  7. ^ Society for Developmental Biology - Edwin G. Conklin Medal. In: sdbonline.org. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  8. ^ Elaine Fuchs to receive Pasarow Award. In: rockefeller.edu. March 18, 2013, accessed October 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Matthew P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Matthew; Scott, Matthew Peter (full name); Scott, Matt (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geneticist and developmental biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953