Michael Shelanski
Michael Shelanski is a cell biologist and neuropathologist. He attended Oberlin College and received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. He served on the faculties of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School before assuming the Chair of Pharmacology at NYU in 1978. He moved to the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in 1987 where he served as the Delafield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology until 2015. Together with Richard Mayeux he founded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia and served as its Director for almost 25 years. He led the Medical Scientist Training Programs (joint MD and PhD programs) at both NYU and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He a member of numerous advisory and editorial boards and a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the Association of American Physicians. Shelanski’s work on identification and purification of tubulin and the characterization of the neurofilament proteins are at the foundation of our understanding of how cells make and keep their shape and organize their internal functions.
Biography current as of February 10, 2020