Professor of Medicine Melvyn Berlinsky Distinguished Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Dr. Gemmill received his BA degree (Magna Cum Laude, with Honors) in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1981. He underwent post-doctoral training in Molecular Biology for one year at Cornell University and for a second year at Arizona State University. In 1983 he accepted a position as Director of Molecular Genetics at the Southwest Biomedical Research Institute in Scottsdale, AZ. He then moved to Denver, CO to accept a position at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research in 1989. In 1996, he moved to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and joined forces with Dr. Harry Drabkin to work on Kidney and Lung cancers. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and to Full Professor in 2007. He joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, as a full professor in June 2007.
