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David Scadden, M.D. is a hematologist/oncologist and an expert on the medical application of stem cell biology with a particular emphasis on its use in the setting of cancer. He is the Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine at Harvard University. Since 1995, Dr. Scadden has practiced at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he founded and directs the Center for Regenerative Medicine and previously directed the Hematologic Malignancies Program of the MGH Cancer Center. Dr. Scadden co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and is Chairman and Professor of the Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, an associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and is a former member of the Board of External Experts for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Cancer Institute and Board of Directors of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He is the recipient of numerous honors including the E. Donnall Thomas and the Dameshek awards from the American Society of Hematology, awards from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Burroughs Welcome Fund, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Dr. Scadden holds degrees from Bucknell University, Case Western Reserve University, honorary degrees from Harvard University, Bucknell University and Lund University in Sweden. He is a scientific founder of Fate Therapeutics and Magenta Therapeutics, public biotechnology companies. His touchstone is improving patients' lives through the application of medical science.
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