Felix Mitelman

Professor Felix Mitelman on 6 July 2009 at the European Cytogeneticists Association reception in the Stockholm City Hall

Felix Mitelman, born August 26, 1940 is a Swedish geneticist and is Professor of Clinical Genetics in Lund, Sweden. He is best known for his pioneering work on chromosome changes in cancer.

He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Board of the European Cytogeneticists Association. In 2007 he was awarded the Nordic Fernström prize and in 2008 the Söderberg Prize in Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer.

Key publications

In total, Mitelman has co-authored more than 700 academic papers. He maintains a database of all published chromosome aberrations in neoplastic disorders, with clinical features, now numbering more than 57,000 cases (as of November 2009). The Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer also contains information on the molecular genetic and clinical consequences of cancer-associated chromosome aberrations. The database is available on-line. (See below.)

• Mitelman F: Catalog of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, Wiley-Liss, New York, 1983-1998
• Heim S & Mitelman F: Cancer Cytogenetics, 3rd Ed., Wiley-Blackwell, New York, 2009

References

• European Cytogeneticists Association Newsletter 21 (Jan 2008). Prestigious prize to E.C.A. board member Professor Felix Mitelman. p. 23.

External links

"Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer". Cancer Genome Anatomy Project. Retrieved 2008-03-01.