Douglas Robinson
Douglas Robinson is a Professor of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also holds appointments in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Medicine (Pulmonary Division), Oncology (GI Division), and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. In his research, he investigates how cells control their shapes for normal human health. In particular, his lab initially uses a model organism Dictyostelium to discover fundamental concepts and then applies these insights to human diseases, including cancer and lung disease. Doug’s lab has also built an outreach initiative for high school students from low-income and educationally under-resourced backgrounds. Now, Doug and his colleagues have expanded the effort by creating a pathway program called the Johns Hopkins Initiative for Careers in Science and Medicine (CSM). So far, the CSM has served over 700 scholars from 5th grade to high school to undergraduate to post-baccalaureate levels.
Doug completed his B.S. degree at Purdue University ('91), his doctoral degree with Lynn Cooley at Yale University School of Medicine ('97), and his postdoctoral training with Jim Spudich at Stanford University School of Medicine ('97-'01). Doug was a Damon Runyon Fellow, a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences recipient, a Beckman Young Investigator, and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar. Doug is the 2015 recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching in Biomedical Sciences and the 2016 recipient of the Biophysical Society’s Emily M. Gray Award for ‘Significant Contributions to Education in Biophysics’. Doug also received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's 2017 Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award for "the encouragement of under-represented minorities to enter the scientific enterprise and/or to the effective mentorship of those within it." In 2018, Doug received the Provost’s Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity, and in 2020, he became a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology. In 2022, Doug became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2024, Doug was recognized as a Distinguished Science Alum by Purdue University and as an Allen Distinguished Investigator by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.
For more information, check out these websites:
Lab URL: http://robinsonlab.cellbio.jhmi.edu/
SARE URL: http://sare.cellbio.jhmi.edu/
CSM URL: http://csm.cellbio.jhmi.edu/