Anjon Audhya, PhD
audhya@wisc.edu
5214 Biochemical Sciences Building
440 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706
Administrative assistant
Stephanie Bolle
bolle2@wisc.edu
Anjon (Jon) Audhya, PhD, is the vice dean for research. He guides the goals and vision of the school’s research enterprise, leads engagement with major research stakeholder groups and plans for the long-term success and global impact of the school’s research activities.
Audhya’s portfolio is dedicated to identifying emerging scientific fields and opportunities that have high potential to advance human health, as well as spearheading efforts to expand research funding, strengthen partnerships and collaborations, and grow the infrastructure that makes research possible.
As the leader of the school’s Office of Basic Research, Biotechnology and Graduate Studies, he oversees the school’s efforts to train and develop the next generation of scientists and foster commercialization of research. In addition, he ensures that research activities are compliant, safe and conducted with integrity, and provides oversight for clinical trials infrastructure.
Audhya works with senior leaders across the school to align research priorities with the school’s mission and strategic plan and serves as the school’s designee and spokesperson on matters related to basic, clinical and public health research.
Audhya is a professor in the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and served as the associate dean for basic research from 2019-2021. He is principal investigator of an NIH T32 training grant that supports the Graduate Training in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology program. He is also a standing member of the Cell Structure and Function-2 (CSF2) NIH Study Section.
Audhya leads an internationally recognized research program focused on fundamental mechanisms by which membrane proteins, lipids and other macromolecules are transported throughout eukaryotic cells. His work uses interdisciplinary approaches and a variety of model systems to identify how biological membranes are manipulated in cells to enable organelle function and cargo transport. His investigations focus on these processes both in healthy cells and organisms and in diseases — such as cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, asthma and diabetes — that involve dysfunction in macromolecular trafficking in cells.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his PhD in biomedical sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in La Jolla.
Among other accolades, Audhya is the recipient of the Shaw Scientist Award, an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship and a RIDE Scholar.