Alexandra Newton

Alexandra C. Newton
Alexandra C. Newton
Born	Cape Town, South Africa
Alma mater	Simon Fraser University, Stanford University (PhD)
Awards	Avanti Lipids Award, ASBMB (2007), Julius Axelrod Award in Pharmacology, ASPET (2019), Biophysics of Health and Disease Biophysical Society (2020), Marie Maynard Daly Award, Protein Society (2024), Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Simon Fraser University (2024)
	Scientific career
Fields	Cell Signaling; Protein kinase C; Protein Kinase; AKT1; Protein phosphatase; Diglcyeride; PHLPP;
Institutions	University of California, San Diego; Indiana University; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; Simon Fraser University;
Thesis	'Intermembrane Protein Transfer'
Website	http://newtonlab.ucsd.edu

Alexandra C. Newton is a Canadian and American biochemist. She is a Distinguished Professor of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. Newton runs a multidisciplinary Protein kinase C and Cell signaling biochemistry and cell biology research group in the School of Medicine, investigating molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in the Phospholipase C (PLC) and Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3 kinase, or PI3-K) signaling pathways. She has been continuously funded by the US National Institutes of Health since 1988.