Tom Misteli, Ph.D. is a Swiss-born (

Solothurn Solothurn ( , ; french: Soleure ; it, Soletta ; rm, ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissens ...

) cell biologist and pioneer in the field of genome cell biology. Tom Misteli is best known for his work on elucidation of how genomes function in living cells. While a post-doc at the

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, and quantitative biology. It is one of 68 institutions supported by the Cancer Centers ...

, New York, United States, he developed methods to visualize proteins in the nucleus of living mammalian cells allowing for the first time to study gene expression in intact cells. His more recent work focuses on the role of genome organization and nuclear architecture on differentiation and disease. His cell biological elucidation of the mechanisms involved in the pre-mature aging disease

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have revealed novel mechanisms of human aging. He is an NIH Distinguished Investigator at the

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, Bethesda, MD, United States and the Director of the NCI Center for Cancer Research at the NIH. He was the Editor-in-Chief of

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(2009-2015) and is the editor of

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. He serves on the editorial boards of ''

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'', ''Cell'' and ''

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''. He co-authored the influential report by the US National Academy of Sciences "Toward Precision Medicine". For his work he has won numerous awards including the Flemming Award, The Gold Medal of the Charles University, The Beerman Award, and the Feulgen Prize. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology.

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*Misteli Lab

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