Dr. Sandra Schmid was Professor and Chair of Cell Biology and held the Cecil H. Green Distinguished Chair in Cellular and Molecular Biology. She is internationally recognized for her research on endocytosis -- how cells take in nutrients and other molecules. She studies the molecular mechanisms and regulation underlying clathrin-mediated endocytosis, the major pathway for uptake into the cell and a critical regulator of cell-cell and cell-environment communication. A pioneer in defining the GTPase dynamin as a catalyst of membrane fission, Dr. Schmid discovered isoform-specific functions of dynamin that are activated in cancer cells. She was recruited to UT Southwestern from The Scripps Research Institute, where she had served as cell biology department chair since 2000. Her honors include a National Institutes of Health Merit Award, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's William C. Rose Award, and election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Schmid was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
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