Tim Mitchison

Dr. Mitchison is a systems biologist and a pioneer in the study of cell division and a co-founder of Ribon. He is the Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology and Deputy Chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), which he helped found along with the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology. Prior to HMS, he was a Professor at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Mitchison pioneered the use of high-content phenotypic screening that led to identification of novel inhibitors of the mitotic kinesin Eg5/KSP, an anti-cancer target that has led to several Phase III studies. Mitchison is a former Searle scholar, a fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to these honors, he is also a past president of the American Society for Cell Biology.

Dr. Mitchison earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco where he also completed postdoctoral work with Dr. Marc Kirschner. He received a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford in England.