George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, is Dean of Harvard Medical School, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine and Professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.

He received his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard, a doctorate in biology from MIT, where he worked with Nobel laureate David Baltimore, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School (1991), summa cum laude.

Daley pursued clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served as chief resident (1994‐1995), and a clinical fellowship in hematology/ oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s. He was a founding member of the executive committee of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research from 2007 to 2008 and as its clerk from 2012 to 2015. He anchored the special task forces that produced the society’s guidelines for stem cell research (2006) and clinical translation (2008) and their subsequent revisions and updates (2016). Daley has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, the American Pediatric Societies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Daley was an inaugural winner of the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for highly innovative research and has received the Judson Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society for achievement in patient‐oriented research, the E. Mead Johnson Award from the American Pediatric Society for contributions to stem cell research, and the E. Donnall Thomas Prize of the American Society of Hematology for advances in human‐induced pluripotent stem cells.