Christopher Kevin Glass (born 1955, California, USA) is an American
biophysicist, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the
University of California, San Diego[1] He works on the molecular mechanisms that control
macrophage functions in health and disease.
Glass majored in biophysics at the
University of California, Berkeley (1977) and received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of California, San Diego (1984). He performed internship and residency training in internal medicine at
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston (1985) before returning to UC San Diego for fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism (1989). He became one of the founding members of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine [2] In 1992 he was appointed
Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSD, and promoted to Associate Professor in 1995, full professor in 1999, and Distinguished Professor in 2018 [2]
Recent work from the laboratory reported the importance of tissue-specific signals in establishing the diverse macrophage phenotypes observed in different organs including
microglia, the major macrophage population in the brain.[6]
Awards and honors
1989 Wilson S. Stone Award for the M.D. Andersen Cancer Center[7]
Ricote, M.; Li, A. C.; Willson, T. M.; Kelly, C. J.; Glass, C. K. (January 1, 1998). "The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma is a negative regulator of macrophage activation". Nature. 391 (6662): 79–82.
Bibcode:
1998Natur.391...79R.
doi:
10.1038/34178.
PMID9422508.
S2CID4421986. – Cited 4118 times according to Google Scholar.[10]