Benjamin Cravatt III

Benjamin F Cravatt
Fields	Chemical Biology
Institutions	The Scripps Research Institute ActivX Biosciences
Known for	Proteomics

Benjamin Franklin Cravatt is a professor in and chair of the Department of Chemical Physiology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Considered the co-inventor of activity based proteomics with Matthew Bogyo, he is a prominent figure in the nascent field of chemical biology.

Cravatt attended Stanford University, earning BS in the Biological Sciences and a BA in History.^[1] He then received a PhD in Macromolecular and Cellular Structure and Chemistry from The Scripps Research Institute in 1996, where he worked under the joint supervision of Dale L. Boger and Richard Lerner. His early contributions to the cannabinoid field include identification and characterization of the endocannabinoid-terminating enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase, FAAH, as well as the isolation of the novel soporific compound oleamide from cerebrospinal fluid.^[2][3] Since these contributions, his research program has expanded to include proteomics, metabolomics, and chemical methods for functionally annotating the roles of serine hydrolase enzymes in cancer and endocannabinoid signaling.

Cravatt is a Cope and Searle Scholar, and the co-founder of ActivX Biosciences. Since 2010, he has been an Associate Editor of Chemical Science, a journal published by Royal Society of Chemistry.^[4]

See also

• Fatty acid amide hydrolase
• Activity based protein profiling
• PROTOMAP

References

1. ^ Bogyo, Matthew; Cravatt, Benjamin F. (2007). "Genomics and proteomics From genes to function: advances in applications of chemical and systems biology". Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 11: 1–3. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.12.029. 
2. ^ Cravatt B.F., Giang D.K., Mayfield S.P., Boger D.L., Lerner, R.A.; "Molecular characterization of an enzyme that degrades neuromodulatory fatty-acid amides"; Nature 384:83 (1996). doi:10.1038/384083a0 PMID 8900284
3. ^ Cravatt BF, Prospero-Garcia O, Siuzdak G, Gilula NB, Henriksen SJ, Boger DL, Lerner RA. Chemical characterization of a family of brain lipids that induce sleep. Science. 1995 268(5216):1506-9. doi:10.1126/science.7770779 PMID 7770779
4. ^ Chemical Science

External links

• The Scripps Research Institute
• The Cravatt Lab at TSRI
• ActivX Biosciences
• TR35 Young Innovator 2002
• Interview with Ben Cravatt on the website of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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