Dr. Alfred Gilman, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of UT Southwestern Medical Center, serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for CPRIT and heads up the agency’s research division.  He is responsible for the planning, development, review, administration, monitoring and reporting of CPRIT’s scientific programs.  Dr. Gilman recruits nationally and internationally known cancer research experts to review and evaluate grant applications. Through his leadership, Dr. Gilman ensures that grant awards will go to research that leads to more effective therapeutics and potential cures to enhance the lives of cancer patients.

Dr. Gilman received his Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in biochemistry from Yale University, and his medical doctor degree and doctorate in pharmacology from Case Western Reserve University.  Following his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Gilman’s career led him to the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where he remained for ten years. In 1981, he became the chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.  He was elected executive vice president of academic affairs and provost in 2006. 

In 1994, Dr. Gilman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of G proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells. Dr. Gilman has received other significant recognition for his work, including election to membership in the United States National Academy of Sciences and receipt of the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Gilman joined CPRIT in June of 2009.

Watch Dr. Gilman's keynote address on CPRIT [via YouTube.com]