Charles N. Serhan

Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D.

Dr. Charles N. Serhan is the first Endowed Distinguished Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and since 1995 has served as Director of the Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury (CET&RI) at BWH. He is a full Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, is affiliated with its Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and is also the Simon Gelman Professor of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology) at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Serhan is a leading authority in inflammatory resolution and was the first to identify the role of anti-inflammatory cellular mediators such as resolvins and lipoxins in the pro-inflammatory pathway. He serves as the Director and Principal Investigator of the Serhan Laboratory at CET&RI and as the program director of a federally supported National Institutes of Health Program Project grant on the Resolution Mechanisms in Acute Inflammation: Resolution Pharmacology. He is also Principal Investigator on the NIH research grant entitled, Blood Cell Lipoxygenase Products: Formation and Action, funded since 1987, and is honored with a MERIT Award and has authored over 400 papers.

Dr. Serhan received his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Stony Brook University New York and his doctorate in Experimental Pathology and Medical Sciences from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his post-doctoral training in Physiological Chemistry at the Karolinska Institute Medical University in Sweden with Professor Bengt Samuelsson, the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, and later received an honorary degree from Harvard University.