Douglas N. Robinson is a professor of cell biology, pharmacology and molecular sciences, medicine (pulmonary division), oncology, and chemical and biomedical engineering in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A cell biologist, geneticist, and biophysicist, Dr. Robinson investigates how cells form the shapes required for the specialized functions necessary for human health.

Robinson completed his B.S. degree at Purdue University (’91), his doctoral degree with Lynn Cooley at Yale University School of Medicine (’97), and his postdoctoral training with Jim Spudich at Stanford University School of Medicine (’97-’01).

Robinson was a Damon Runyon Fellow, a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences recipient, a Beckman Young Investigator, and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar. He is the 2015 recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Professors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching in Biomedical Sciences and the 2016 recipient of the Biophysical Society’s Emily M. Gray Award for ‘Significant Contributions to Education in Biophysics’.  He also received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s 2017 Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award for “the encouragement of under-represented minorities to enter the scientific enterprise and/or to the effective mentorship of those within it.” In 2018, he received the Provost’s Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity, and in 2020, he became a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology.