Anthony Bishop PhD

Anthony C. Bishop is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Program in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Amherst College. Bishop holds a B.A. in Chemistry/Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University. His lab uses a combination of chemical and biochemical approaches to study cell signaling from a chemical perspective, with a particular focus on the development of novel chemical tools for controlling the activities of protein tyrosine phosphatases with high specificity. He received a Faculty Start-up Grant for Undergraduate Institutions from the Dreyfus Foundation in 2002 and was named a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar in 2010.