Jamey D. Marth PhD

Dr. Jamey Marth is Professor and Director of the University of California Santa Barbara Center for Nanomedicine, and of the SBP Medical Discovery Institute. He is also a Professor in the UCSB Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and in the UCSB Biomolecular Science and Engineering program. Dr. Marth is the inaugural recipient of the John Carbon Endowed Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and recipient of the UCSB Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Endowed Chair of Systems Biology. Dr. Marth received a Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Washington where he trained in the laboratories of Roger M. Perlmutter, current Executive Vice-President of Merck, and the late Edwin G. Krebs, a 1992 Nobel Prize laureate. Dr. Marth was recruited to UC San Diego in 1995 by George Palade - a 1974 Nobel Prize laureate, where he was appointed as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, prior to his current positions.