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Dr. Orkin, HHMI investigator at Children's Hospital Boston, is also the David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He received his B.S. degree in life sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. His postdoctoral research was performed in Philip Leder's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Upon completion of clinical training in pediatrics and hematology-oncology at Children's Hospital Boston, he joined the Harvard faculty. Dr. Orkin's honors include the Mead-Johnson Award, the Dameshek and E. Donnall Thomas Awards of the American Society of Hematology, the Helmut Horten Prize (with Yuet Wai Kan and Sir David Weatherall), and the 2005 Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences from the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Stuart Orkin's research focuses on stem cell biology, particularly the development and function of the blood system, the relationship between cancer and stem cells, and the mechanisms responsible for self-renewal of stem cells.
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