Larry Jameson | |
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President of the University of Pennsylvania | |
Acting | |
Assumed office December 12, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Liz Magill |
Personal details | |
Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ( BS, MD, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | genetic basis of hormonal disorders |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Regulation of microtubule assembly and steady-state dynamics (1981) |
J. Larry Jameson is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator serving as the interim president of the University of Pennsylvania since December 2023. [1] He has served as the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 2011. [2] He is the Robert G. Dunlop professor of medicine and an executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. [2]
Jameson earned a BS in Chemistry in 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also earned both an MD and a PhD in biochemistry from Chapel Hill in 1981. [3]