Prof. Mike Caligiuri Ohio State University, USA

Michael Caligiuri is Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, CEO of the James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute and JL Marakas Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Professor of Cancer Research at the Ohio State University. His laboratory focuses on research in leukemia, lymphoma and the human immune system. His current... read moreprojects include developing a vaccine to prevent lymphoma in organ transplant patients, studying natural killer cell biology, and working to target genetic defects in leukemia and lymphoma for curative therapies. Caligiuri earned his graduate and medical degrees at Stanford University School of Medicine, then trained in internal medicine, oncology, bone marrow transplantation and immunology at Harvard before joining the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1989. He next spent seven years at Roswell Park Medical Center in Buffalo, NY, where he became Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Medicine. He was recruited to The Ohio State University in 1997 as the OSUCCC Associate Director for Clinical Research. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and has given hundreds of lectures on his research throughout the world.