Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist. He was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1973 with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1978 with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, where he studied with George Kenyon. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Christopher T. Walsh at MIT from 1978 to 1980 and continued as a faculty member at MIT from 1980 to 1987 whereupon he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the college of pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan.The Eureka! Moment-scientific discovery is NOT sudden . Ns.umich.edu. Retrieved on 2013-10-08. In 2001, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, to assume roles as Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and served as the chair of the department of chemistry from 2005 until 2010.Michael A. Marletta. chem.berkeley.edu He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.Investigator (Alumni) Michael A. Marletta, Ph.D. | Howard Hughes Medical Institute. HHMI. Retrieved on 2013-10-08. From January 2012 to August 2014, Marletta was president and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, succeeding Richard Lerner.The Scripps Research Institute Names Michael A. Marletta as President. Scripps.edu (2011-02-20).
Marletta is currently C. H. and Annie Li Chair in the Molecular Biology of Diseases at the University of California, Berkeley.Michael A. Marletta. chem.berkeley.edu In 2009, Marletta helped Jennifer Doudna return to UC Berkeley after working a short stint at Genentech; Doudna would later win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for her work on CRISPR after returning to UC Berkeley from Genentech.
Awards 2018 Honorary Doctor of Science, State University of New York 2016 Elected to the American Philosophical Society 2006 Elected to the National Academy of SciencesResearch News: Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected To National Academy of Sciences. Lbl.gov (2006-04-25). Retrieved on 2013-10-08. 2004 Harrison Howe Awardee The Harrison Howe Award – Michael Marletta. Chem.rochester.edu (2005-02-24). Retrieved on 2013-10-08. 1999 Elected to the Institute of Medicine. Iom.edu (2013-09-19). Retrieved on 2013-10-08. 1995 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works "Nitric-Oxide Synthase Assays", Oxygen radicals in biological systems, Editor Lester Packer, Elsevier, 1994, "Biochemistry of Soluble Guanulate Cyclase", CGMP: Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications, Editors Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Franz Hofmann, Johannes-Peter Stasch, Springer, 2009,
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External links Michael A. Marletta", Scientific Commons The Marletta lab at UC Berkeley