Philip A. Beachy

Philip Arden Beachy ( born October 25, 1958 in Red Lake, Ontario, Canada) is an American biochemist, cell and developmental biologist at Stanford School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Life

Beachy acquired in 1979 at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, a bachelor's degree in natural sciences and - after a few lectures in chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington - 1986 David Hogness at Stanford University in Stanford, California, with the work Molecular biology of homeotic gene function in Drosophila a Ph.D. in biochemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow Beachy worked at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore, Maryland, before 1988, a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics (1988 Assistant Professor, 1993 Associate Professor, 1998 Associate Professor ) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, also in Baltimore received. Since 2000, Beachy research in addition to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2004 he received at Johns Hopkins University in addition a professor of oncology. In 2006, Beachy at the Stanford School of Medicine in Stanford, California, where he now (2012 ) is Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Developmental Biology and Biochemistry.

Work

Beachy has made fundamental contributions to the Hedgehog pathway by which the important steps of embryonic development are regulated in animals. He made the surprising discovery that cholesterol plays an important role in the formation of the hedgehog protein, bringing new aspects of lipid modification of signaling proteins revealed. Beachy was able to shed further important steps in this signal transduction.

Awards (selection)

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