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

Biographical Info

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.

International Activity

• Visiting Professor- University of Konstanz
  Konstanz, Germany (2010 - 2013)
  Guest Professor, University of Konstanz

Education & Training

B.A.

University of Virginia (1986)

Ph.D.

Harvard University (1992)

Cancer Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (1993 - 1995)

Honors & Recognition

• Guest Professor
  University of Konstanz (2010)
• Lewis B. Cullman Professor of MCDB
  Yale University (2010)
• New Investigator Award
  Burroughs Wellcome Fund (1996)
• New Investigator Award
  Donaghue Foundation (1996)
• Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty Member in the Social or Natural Sciences
  Yale University (1999)
• CaPCURE Research Prize
  Assoc. for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate (1996)
• Bessel Research Award
  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006)
• Fellow
  Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2005)
• Senior Scholar in Aging
  Ellison Medical Foundation (2011)

Professional Service

• Chemistry & Biology (7/1/2007)
• Member, Chemistry & Biology (7/1/2001)
• Member, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics (7/1/2001)
• Member, ChemBioChem (10/1/2010)