Michael Milsom PhD

Michael gained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds in the UK. For his first postdoctoral position, he joined the group of Dr Leslie Fairbairn at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester, in order to study gene therapy of hematopoietic stem cells. He then moved to the USA to undertake a second postdoctoral fellowship in the group of Dr. David A. Williams at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

He next took up a junior faculty position at Harvard Medical School/Children’s Hospital Boston within the Division of Hematology/Oncology, again under the mentorship of David. He joined HI-STEM as a junior group leader in September 2010. In September 2017, he was promoted to full group leader at HI-STEM and also became tenured head of the Division of Experimental Hematology at the DKFZ.