The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche
Event Details
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- Stem Cell Biology Seminars
- Speaker(s)
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Sean Morrison, Ph.D., founding director, Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics, and Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research, Children's Medical Center Research Institute, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Speaker bio(s)
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Dr. Sean J. Morrison is the founding Director of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (since 2011) and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator (since 2000). He holds the Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics and the Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research. Dr. Morrison completed a B.Sc. in biology and chemistry at Dalhousie University (1991), a Ph.D. in immunology at Stanford University (1996), and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurobiology at Caltech (1999). From 1999 to 2011, Dr. Morrison was the Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Michigan. His laboratory studies the mechanisms that regulate stem cell function in adult tissues and the ways in which those mechanisms get hijacked by cancer cells to enable tumor formation. Dr. Morrison received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2003) and a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Aging (2009) among other awards. He was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine (2018), the US National Academy of Sciences (2020), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO, 2023). Dozens of students and postdoctoral fellows who trained in the Morrison laboratory have gone on to tenure track faculty positions at institutions across the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 2020, Dr. Morrison received the Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award from the Postdoctoral Association at UT Southwestern. Dr. Morrison also served as the President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR; 2015–2016) and has been active in public policy issues surrounding stem cell research, testifying before the U.S. Congress, and serving as a leader in the successful Proposal 2 campaign to protect and regulate stem cell research in Michigan’s state constitution. In 2022, Dr. Morrison received the ISSCR Public Service Award.
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- Tri-Institutional