Biography:Louis M. Staudt

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Louis M. Staudt
Born1955
Alma mater
  • Harvard College
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Scientific career
Institutions

Louis Michael Staudt is a scientist at the National Cancer Institute, where he is co-chief of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch and the director of the Center for Cancer Genomics.

Early life and education

Staudt was born in 1955 in Michigan.[1] Staudt graduated from Harvard College in 1976 with a BA in biochemistry. He received his MD and PhD in immunology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1982. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wistar Institute, and an internship in Internal Medicine. From 1984 to 1988, he worked in the laboratory of David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow.[2][3]

Career

Staudt joined the National Cancer Institute in 1988.[2] His main area of research is the genomics of lymphoma. He has published over 250 papers.[4]

Staudt became director of the Center for Cancer Genomics in 2013.[4]

Awards

  • 2002 NIH MERIT Award
  • 2009 Dameshek Prize, American Society of Hematology
  • 2011 NIH Distinguished Investigator
  • 2013 Elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences

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