David L. Brautigan

David is the F. Palmer Weber Professor of Medical Research, Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His research on cell signaling and protein phosphorylation focuses on the biochemistry of protein Ser/Thr phosphatases. He has published more than 240 scientific articles that have been cited nearly 20,000 times. He serves as a scientific advisor for research programs and centers at Virginia and other Universities and was previously program leader and executive committee member for the UVA Cancer Center. He was a founding member and subsequently chairman of the Molecular and Integrative Signal Transduction (MIST) study section at NIH. He has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and he created and supported the commercial distribution of over a dozen licensed research reagents. David Brautigan received his B.A. degree with honors in chemistry at Kalamazoo College, his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and was a postdoctoral fellow with Nobel laureate Edmond H. Fischer at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was a Professor of Medical Science at Brown Univ