国际著名干细胞专家、美国哈佛医学院教授、霍华德休斯医学研究所(HHMI)研究员 George Q. Daley, MD, PhD将于2012年4月16日访问浙江大学生命科学研究院并做一个干细胞研究的学术报告。

报告题目：Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Model Human Disease

时间：2012年4月16日（星期一）上午10点

地点：医学院综合楼205报告厅

Dr. George Q. Daley is past-President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2007-2008). Daley’s research contributions include the derivation of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells for over a dozen human diseases, demonstration of combined gene and cell therapy via customized stem cells, and creation of a murine model of human chronic myeloid leukemia that validated BCR/ABL as a drug target. Dr. 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 summa cum laude (1991). Dr. Daley has received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the Judson Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society, the E. Mead Johnson Award from the American Pediatric Society, and the E. Donnall Thomas Prize from the American Society for Hematology. He has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association of Physicians, and American Pediatric Societies, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science.