Jeffrey M. Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen studied chemistry at Williams College where he received a BA degree in 1966. His Ph.D. research at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute helped elucidate the mechanisms for glucocorticoid resistance in lymphomas. His postdoctoral studies at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine under the supervision of Dr. Bert W. O’Malley were concerned with the mechanism of action of estrogen in the chick oviduct. His postdoctoral studies involved the isolation of ovalbumin mRNA and the first demonstration of steroid hormone induction of a specific mRNA. He joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in 1973 and was a founder member of the first Department of Cell Biology in the USA. In 1987-88 he spent a sabbatical leave in the laboratories of Drs. George Stark and Ian Kerr at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories funded by an American Cancer Society Scholar Grant, where he participated in early studies to elucidate the mechanisms of interferon action that helped lead to the discovery of the Jak/Stat pathway. Dr. Rosen is currently a Distinguished Service Professor, the Vice Chair and the C.C. Bell Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He was the recipient of two MERIT awards from the National Cancer Institute on a grant entitled, “Hormonal Regulation of Breast Cancer” currently in its forty-fourth year of consecutive funding. His laboratory has authored 300 publications and book chapters. He is the PI on the CPRIT BCM Comprehensive Cancer Training Program. Dr. Rosen has trained 37 graduate students and 51 postdoctoral fellows many of whom are now faculty at major academic institutions in the USA and abroad. He has received the Marc Dresden Excellence in Graduate Education Award, the Barbara & Corbin J. Robertson, Jr. Presidential Award for Excellence in Education at BCM, the Endocrine Society Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award, the Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Award, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Brinker Basic Science Award, and the AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research. He is also an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Rosen is a Susan G. Komen Scholar, and the co-leader of Breast Program of the Dan. L. Duncan NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.