Joseph Schlessinger
William H. Prusoff Professor and Chairman of the Pharmacology Department, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Cancer Biology Institute
Meet Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph is an internationally recognized expert in the field of cell signalling and in personalized treatment for cancer. He is known for the discovery of receptor dimerization, which explains how receptor tyrosine kinases are activated when a molecule binds at the cell surface. He was recently named to the 2016 Class of Fellows of the American Association of Cancer Research Academy.