Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D.

Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine; Professor, Departments of Cellular/Molecular Pharmacology and Biochemistry/Biophysics, UCSF

Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D. is Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine and a Professor in the Departments of Cellular/Molecular Pharmacology and Biochemistry/Biophysics at UCSF. He has been a member of the UCSF faculty since 1976, Dr. Yamamoto’s research is focused on signaling and transcriptional regulation by intracellular receptors, which mediate the actions of several classes of essential hormones and cellular signals. Dr. Yamamoto was a founding editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell, and serves on numerous editorial boards and scientific advisory boards, and national committees focused on public and scientific policy, public understanding and support of biological research, and science education; he chairs the Coalition for the Life Sciences (formerly the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy) and for the National Academy of Sciences, he chairs the Board on Life Sciences. Dr. Yamamoto was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988, the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, the Institute of Medicine in 2003, and as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 2002. Dr. Yamamoto completed his undergraduate training in Biochemistry at Iowa State University, and his graduate work at Princeton University.