Markus Muschen MD, PhD

Markus MUschen, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology within the Beckman Research Institute and holds The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Professorship in Pediatrics. Dr. MUschen is also the associate director of the basic science of the comprehensive cancer center.

Dr. Müschen is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar and is supported by a National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award (R35). He received his medical degree from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he graduated summa cum laude. He completed his medical training in hematology-oncology in Cologne, under Volker Diehi.

After scientific training at the Institute Pasteur in Paris, in Ralf Küppers’ and Klaus Rajewsky’s laboratory at the Institute of Genetics in Cologne and Janet Rowley’s laboratory at the University of Chicago, Dr. Müschen launched his laboratory in Cologne and moved with his entire group to the University of Southern California in 2005 as program leader, Hematological Malignancies Program, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.