JoAnn Trejo
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JoAnn Trejo | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Davis University of California, San Diego |
| Employer(s) | University of California, San Diego |
| Website | http://trejolab.ucsd.edu/Home.html/ |
JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist, cell biologist, a professor, and also an assistant vice chancellor in the department of health sciences faculty affairs in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California, San Diego.[1][2] She is also the assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs.[3] Trejo studies cell signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).[4][5][6] She is also actively involved in mentoring, education and outreach activities to increase the diversity of science.[7][8]
Trejo was born in French Camp in San Joaquin County, California.[9] She grew up the youngest of five children in a single-parent household.[10] Trejo obtained her bachelor's of science in toxicology and biochemistry from University of California, Davis in 1986.[11][12] She earned her PhD and MBA at University of California, San Diego in 1992 and 2015, respectively.[11][12]
Career
Trejo completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.[11] In 2000, she joined the faculty at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.[11] In 2008, she was recruited to University of California, San Diego as a tenured faculty member and was promoted to full professor in 2012. In 2014, she was appointed vice chair of the Department of Pharmacology.[11] In 2015, she became the associate dean for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs and was appointed vice chancellor in 2019.[11][13] As mentioned below in the list of awards, she was awarded by ASCB (American Society for Cell Biology) for her outstanding inclusivity. This award is one of the most recent series of mentoring and inclusivity awards recognized by ASCB, ASBMB and UCSD. Through this award, she was recognized as a scientist who stands for inclusion and diversity in science with a $5,000 award to further widen the scope of activities and actions taken to enhance inclusion.
Research interests
Trejo studies the regulatory mechanisms that control signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in normal physiology and disease.[4][5][6] She is best known for her discoveries that reveal how cellular responses are regulated by G protein-coupled receptors in the context of vascular inflammation and breast cancer.
