George M. Langford

George Malcolm Langford (born August 26, 1944) is a Professor of Biology, Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences in Syracuse, New York. He is known for his work on the cell and molecular biology of the actin cytoskeleton in health and disease.

Early life and education Langford was born August 26, 1944, in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. During graduate school, he also worked at the Argonne National Laboratory with Robert Webb.

Langford trained as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with Shinya Inoué between 1971-1973.

Langford became the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University in August 2008. He was succeeded by Karin Ruhlandt in 2015.

Service In 1985, Langford was named the first chairman of the Minorities Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology. Langford was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the National Science Board where he served a six-year term on the 24-member panel from 1998-2004. He has served on the boards of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences Advisory Committee, the NIH SYN Study Section, the National Research Council Associateships Program Committee, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, and the Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative Leadership Council.

Awards Langford became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

He was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2021.

Langford received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Beloit College in 2001.

Personal life Langford is married to Sylvia Langford and they have three children.