Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
Adam & Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics
PhD, University of Michigan, 1980
Post Doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980-1984.
Dr. Chisholm received both his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University
of Michigan where he was a trainee of the NIH training program in Genetics.
As a doctoral student Dr. Chisholm investigated recombination between DNA
introduced into cells and cellular chromosomes, a process critical for the
genetic modification of animal cells and animals. As a postdoctoral fellow
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he developed methods for analyzing
the patterns of gene expression during development. Since 1984 Chisholm has
been on the faculty of Northwestern University where his research program
uses genetic and molecular genetic approaches to investigate the fundamental
process of cell motility. These studies have contributed to our understanding
of processes such as wound healing, tumor metastasis, and embryonic development.
Author of over 100 scientific papers and abstracts, Chisholm has served as
a member of scientific review committees for the National Institutes of Health
and the American Cancer Society. He also served as Director of the Biomedical
Hands-on-Laboratory of the Science Writing Fellowships Program at the Marine
Biological Laboratory. Chisholm received a Basil O’Connor Fellowship from
the March of Dimes and was elected a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. Currently Chisholm is director of the Center for
Genetic Medicine, a partnership between Northwestern University, Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, Children’s Memorial Hospital and Evanston Northwestern
Healthcare that facilitates the development of new genetic knowledge and its
application to medicine. In addition to his scientific pursuits, Chisholm
is especially interested in the public understanding of science.
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