George Q. Daley
| George Q. Daley | |
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| Born | Catskill, NY |
| Nationality | American |
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| Spouse(s) | Amy Edmondson |
George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., is the Robert A. Stranahan Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Associate Director of Children’s Stem Cell Program, a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He is a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2007–2008). On August 9th, 2016, he was announced the next dean of Harvard Medical School and that he will become Dean on January 1, 2017.
Daley was born in Catskill, New York.
Daley received his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Harvard University (1982), a Ph.D. in biology from MIT (1989), and the M.D. from Harvard Medical School, where he was only the twelfth individual in the school’s history to be awarded the degree summa cum laude (1991). He served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and is currently a staff physician in Hematology/Oncology at Children's Hospital Boston and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
As a graduate student working with Nobelist Dr. David Baltimore, Dr. Daley demonstrated that the BCR/ABL oncogene induces chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in a mouse model, which validated BCR/ABL as a target for drug blockade and encouraged the development of imatinib (Gleevec; Novartis), a magic-bullet chemotherapy that induces remissions in virtually every CML patient. Daley’s recent studies have clarified mechanisms of Gleevec resistance and informed novel combination chemotherapeutic regimens.
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