Dr. Andrew Chisholm

Professor

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Biography

Andrew Chisholm received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1989, where he conducted research at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He then pursued postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the mentorship of H. Robert Horvitz, receiving a Lucille P. Markey postdoctoral fellowship. Chisholm joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he advanced to the rank of Professor before moving to the University of California, San Diego in 2007. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the Head of the Cellular and Developmental Sciences at the Wellcome Trust in London and in 2019 he was appointed Associate Dean in the Division of Biological Sciences.

Research Interests

Skin Regeneration Nervous System Repair Epidermal Responses to Injury Axon Regeneration

Experience

Professor

2007-01-01 — Present

University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA

Conducts research on skin and nervous system regeneration using models such as Caenorhabditis elegans.

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
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  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).