
Ian M. Dickerson, Ph.D.
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Ian M. Dickerson, Ph.D.
About Me
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, 1980 BA Biology
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1985 PhD Molecular Biology
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1989 Post Doc Neuroscience
POSITIONS:
1989-1997: Assistant Professor, Univer...
Faculty Appointments
Associate Professor - Department of Neuroscience (SMD)
Associate Professor - Department of Biomedical Engineering (RC) - Joint
Credentials
Post-doctoral Training & Residency
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience 1985 - 1989
Education
PhD | Purdue University. Molecular Biology. 1985
BA | Humboldt State Univ. Biology. 1980
Awards
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity; Outstanding Graduate Mentor. 1996
Stanley Glaser Research Award. 1994
NIH NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. 1987 - 1989
Research
Our laboratory studies the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Originally discovered as an alternatively-spliced variant of the calcitonin mRNA, CGRP is one of the most potent vasodilators known. As a vasodilator, CGRP has both...
Patents
Methods of Treating Cancer Using The Calcitonin-Gene Related Peptide ("CGRP") Receptor Antagonist CGRP8-37
Issue date: March 12, 2013
Delivery of Biomolecules into Cells Through Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Issue date: October 12, 2021
Publications
Journal Articles
Rahman SM, Dickerson I, Luebke AE
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology.. 2024 October 26 Epub 10/26/2024.
Wee NK, Novak S, Ghosh D, Root SH, Dickerson IM, Kalajzic I
Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society.. 2023 June 41 (6):1228-1239. Epub 10/31/2022.
McQuaid C, Solorzano A, Dickerson I, Deane R
Frontiers in neuroscience.. 2023 17 :1117845. Epub 02/16/2023.
Books
The Calcitonin Gene-related Peptide Family: Form, Function & Future Perspective (2010)
Chapter: "The CGRP Receptor Component Protein: A Regulator for CLR Signaling"
The Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Family; Form, Function And Future Perspective (2009)
Chapter: "The CGRP Receptor Component Protein (RCP): A Regulator for CLR Signaling",
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology (2006)
Chapter: "CGRP: A Multifunctional Neuropeptide"
The CGRP family: calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), amylin, and adrenomedul (2000)
Chapter: The CGRP-receptor component protein: A novel signal transduction protein.
Peptide Biosynthesis and Processing (1991)
Chapter: Tissue-specificity of peptide processing.
Neuropeptides and Their Receptors, Alfred Benzon Symposium 29 (1990)
Chapter: Probing the specificity of biosynthetic endoproteases with transfected cDNA for proNeuropeptide Y.
Highlights on Endocrinologyed (1987)
Chapter: Cloning of cDNA Encoding Bovine Peptidyl-glycine a-Amidating Monooxygenase (PAM).