James Eberwine#
| Membership Number: | 7532 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9363-0858 |
| Publication Link: | https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/James-Eberwine-38655329 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 1990 - 1994 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 1994 - 1996 Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 1994 - 1996 Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 1996 - present Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 1996 - present Professor of Pharmacology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 2006 - 2017 Adjunct Professor, Scripps Research Institute – Department of Chemical Physiology
- 2006 - present Elmer Holmes Bobst Chair in Systems Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA populations modulate cellular phenotype
- Enabled the field of single cell transcriptomics
- Pioneered subcellular genomics
- Single-cell discovery of cytoplasmically localized, retained-Intron RNAs
- Molecular proof of dendritic protein translation
Honours and Awards
- 2026 Doctor of Sciences (honorus causa) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences
- 2019 Elected to National Academy of Medicine
- 2019 2nd NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
- 2017 Brain Research Foundation Science Innovation Award
- 2015-17 NIH “Follow the Cell” Finalist and Prize Winner
- 2014 Elected to National Academy of Inventors
- 2012 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award
- 2011 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging
- 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
- 2005 Stephen and Constance Lieber Distinguished Investigator for the (NARSAD)
- 2001-2011 MERIT Award
- 1998 Dresel Lectureship - Dalhousie University
