Al Gilman, M.D., Ph.D.
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Alfred G. Gilman received his B.S. (summa cum laude) in Biochemistry in 1962 from Yale University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 1969 from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics at the National Institutes of Health (1969-71).
In 1971, Dr. Gilman began a ten-year stay at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He then became Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1981. He was named a Regental Professor in 1995.
In 1994, Dr. Gilman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine when he discovered, characterized, and purified a set of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins termed G proteins. His observations provided for the first time a firm molecular basis for understanding certain signal transduction processes present throughout nature.
In 2004, Dr. Gilman was named Dean of Southwestern Medical School. In addition, in 2006 he became Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cener. Gilman retired from UT Southwestern in 2009 to assume the position of Chief Scientific Officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).
