专家简介

Doug Melton is co-founding director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), a leading stem cell and regenerative biologist, and one of the driving forces behind Harvard's ascendency to world leadership in the field. Dr Melton is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor in the Natural Sciences at Harvard University. Dr Melton earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Illinois and then went to Cambridge University in England as a Marshall Scholar. He earned a B.A. in history and philosophy of science at Cambridge and remained there to earn a Ph.D. in molecular biology at Trinity College and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Dr Melton serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute, holds membership in the National Academy of Science and is a founding member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.