Keynote Speaker

Markus Müschen, MD, PhD 

Professor
Yale University
Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
Director, Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Chief, Cellular and Molecular Oncology
HHMI Faculty Scholar 

Dr. Müschen is the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Hematology, HHMI Faculty Scholar and was appointed Director of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Yale in October 2020. For his academic achievements and contribution to the field, Dr. Müschen was consecutively awarded NCI Outstanding Investigator Award in 2016 and 2021, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar Award (2016), Cancer Research UK Programme Award (2014), Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2013) and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award (2011), etc. He also serves in the field as Honorary faculty of Cambridge University, Adjunct Professor of UCSF, Scientific Advisor of Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades and Associate Editor of Leukemia. Since 2009, the Müschen laboratory has established new conceptual frameworks for the understanding of B-cell signaling and energy metabolism and how defects in these mechanisms contribute to autoimmunity and B-cell transformation.

Selected Publications

Sadras T, et al. Mol Cell. 2021 
Lee J, et al. Nature. 2020 
Lai LN, et al. Nature. 2020 
Müschen M. Nat Rev Immunol. 2019 
Xiao G, et al. Cell. 2018 
Müschen M. Nat Rev Cancer. 2018 
Lai LN, et al. Nature. 2017 
Shojaee S, et al. Nat Med. 2016 
Chen Z, et al. Nature. 2015 
Geng H, et al. Cancer Cell. 2015  
Swaminathan S, et al. Nat Immunol. 2015 
Duy C, et al. Nature. 2011