Michel Sadelain

Michel JW Sadelain (* 1960 ) is an immunologist and cancer researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center . Here he is founding director of the Center for Cell Engineering and head of the Gene Transfer and Gene Expression Laboratory . Sadelain is considered - together with Carl H. June - as a pioneer of CAR-T-cell therapy , a cancer immunotherapy . He also works on stem cell therapy for various blood formation disorders .

Sadelain obtained an MD from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris in 1984 with the thesis Étude du système antigène-anticorps SSA dans le syndrome de Sjögren et le lupus érythémateux disséminé, relation avec le système SSB and in 1989 a Ph.D. at the University of Alberta in Canada . He worked as an intern at the Center Hospitalier Universitaire Saint-Antoine and as a postdoctoral fellow with Richard C. Mulligan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 1994 he has worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City . He also holds a professorship in internal medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College .

Sadelain was elected an active member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2003 . In 2012 he received the William B. Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute and in 2018 both the Passano Award from the Passano Foundation and the Pasteur-Weizmann / Servier International Prize , and in 2019 the Gabbay Award and the Prix ​​International de l'INSERM .

Web links

• Michel Sadelain and The Michel Sadelain Lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (mskcc.org)
• Michel Sadelain at Weill Cornell Medical College (cornell.edu)
• Michel Sadelain, MD, Ph.D. at the Cancer Research Institute (cancerresearch.org)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Library and Archives Canada : VIAF data set "Sadelain, Michel WJ" In: viaf.org. Retrieved March 24, 2018 . 
2. ↑ BnF Catalog General. In: catalogue.bnf.fr. Retrieved March 24, 2018 (French). 
3. ↑ Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD at the American Society for Clinical Investigation (the-asci.org); accessed on March 24, 2018.
4. ^ William B. Coley Award. In: cancerresearch.org. Retrieved March 24, 2018 . 
5. ^ Recipients of the Passano Laureate and Physician Scientist Awards. In: passanofoundation.org. Retrieved May 1, 2019 .