Louis M. Staudt MD, PhD

Louis M. Staudt is the Director of the Center for Cancer Genomics at the National Cancer Institute and also serves as Co-Chief of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch. He is a cancer biologist who is known for his development of methods in genomics to define molecular subtypes of cancer and identify new targets for therapy. His particular focus is on the pathogenesis and treatment of lymphoma. Staudt was born in Michigan in 1955 and received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1976. 

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Louis M. Staudt was awarded a Medical Scientist Training Program fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and received his MD and Ph.D. degrees in 1982. Following Internal Medicine training, he joined Nobel Laureate David Baltimore's laboratory at the Whitehead Institute as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow. In 1988, he established his laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, and in 2011, he received the honorary title of NIH Distinguished Investigator. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the 2009 Dameshek Prize from the American Society of Hematology for outstanding contributions to hematology.