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Joan Massagué Solé (born April 30, 1953 in Barcelona), is a Spanish scientist. He is the director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute and Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. An internationally recognized leader in the study of both cancer metastasis and growth factors that regulate cell behavior, he is also a professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. ==Biography== Born in Barcelona, Spain, on April 30, 1953, Massagué earned his doctorate degree in Pharmacy and Biochemistry at the University of Barcelona in 1978 under the mentorship of Professor Joan J. Guinovart. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in 1982 in the laboratory of Michael P. Czech, PhD, at Brown University, where he determined the composition of the receptor for the hormone insulin. Later that year, he became an assistant professor in Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where he initiated his work on cell growth control. Massagué joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering in 1989 as the Alfred P. Sloan Chair of the Sloan-Kettering Institute’s Cell Biology Program and was named founding Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program in 2003. In addition, he became the Director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Metastasis Research Center. He was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1990 to 2013. In 2005 he became a Scientific Advisor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bacelona.〔Elizabath Davita-Raeburn for the HHMI Bulletin. August 2008. (The Unintentional Scientist )〕 The following year, in 2006, he received the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science. In 2013, Massagué was named Director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.〔(), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Massagué Solé」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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