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Bruce R. Conklin, MD Bruce R. Conklin, MD is a Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, with appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. His research utilizes bioinformatics, receptor engineering, and stem cell biology to understand basic pharmacological responses, with a particular emphasis on the largest known family of receptors for hormones and drugs, called G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs).

Dr. Conklin received an A.B. degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. He completed an MD degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1988. During his last two years of medical school, Dr. Conklin had the privilege of working under the tutelage of Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod, PhD, at the National Institutes of Health.

He then completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Henry Bourne, MD at UCSF. Dr. Conklin served as the founding director of the Gladstone Genomics Core and is currently the founding director of the Gladstone Stem Cell Core. From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Conklin was the Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a member of several honorary societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Conklin was the co-chair of the UCSF public science project in 1994, and is co-chair of the UCSF-California Academy of Sciences Affiliation Task Force. Dr. Conklin’s interest in genomics led to the development of a widely used, open source software package (www.GenMAPP.org), and a rapidly growing public wiki for Pathway information (www.WikiPathways.org).