Primary Job Title Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Primary Organization 
Harvard Medical School
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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George Q. Daley joined Harvard Medical School as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 2017.George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., a standing member of MPM & OIF’s MSAB, is the Samuel E. Lux IV Chair in Hematology/Oncology and Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. As an advisor to MPM since 1993, George has
helped source and evaluate new technologies and served in numerous scientific and business advisory roles for MPM portfolio companies. George has been active in the biotechnology industry as a scientific adviser to companies and investors across the spectrum from start-ups to major pharma. George is also Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, founding Executive Committee member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and past-President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. George’s research has exploited murine models and customized human stem cells to translate insights in stem cell biology into improved therapies for genetic and malignant diseases.
George has been elected to the US 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. George was an inaugural winner of the NIH 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 for Hematology for advances in human induced pluripotent stem cells.
George received his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard University (1982), a Ph.D. in biology from MIT working with Nobelist David Baltimore (1989), and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1991), where he was the twelfth individual in school history to receive the degree summa cum laude.
