Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor of Pathology

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California San Diego
George E. Palade Facilities for Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Room 210
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Phone: (858) 534-7711
Fax: (858) 534-8549
Email: mfarquhar@ucsd.edu

Marilyn Gist Farquhar received her A.B. degree in Zoology, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco. Academic history: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, the University of California San Francisco, and Rockefeller University; Professor of Pathology at the UCSF School of Medicine, Professor of Cell Biology at Rockefeller University, and Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. Currently she is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Pathology, and Chair, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine. Her accomplishments include the following: member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; received the Wilson Medal of the American Society of Cell Biologists, the Homer Smith Medal of the American Society of Nephrology, the Distinguished Scientist Medal of the EMSA, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (UCSD); the Rous-Whipple Award of the American Society for Investigative Pathology; the Carl Gottschalk Prize from University of North Carolina; the A.N. Richards Award for Excellence in Research from the International Society of Nephrology; FASEB Award for Excellence in Science 2006; charter member of the ASCB; twice on the ASCB's Council, and once as President; served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cell Biology, Molecular Endocrinology, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Molecular Medicine and currently serves on the Editorial Board of Molecular Biology of the Cell and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Histchemistry and Cytochemistry. Her research is supported by grants from the NIH (NIDDK and NCI).

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