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Hematopoietic stem cell researchers

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Alexander A. Maximow

Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928) was a Russian-born histologist and embryologist who proposed in 1906 that all blood cells arise from a single common precursor, the lymphocyte.

Blanche P. Alter

Blanche P. Alter is an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology and cancer genetics, known for building and leading the National Cancer Institute's Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes study.

Claus Nerlov

Claus Nerlov is a stem cell biologist and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at the University of Oxford who studies how blood cells form and how leukemia arises.

David C. Dale

David C. Dale is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Washington since 1976, known for neutropenia research and G-CSF trials.

David W. Golde

David W. Golde (1940–2004) was an American hematologist and oncologist whose laboratory purified human GM-CSF and derived the KG-1 leukemia cell line, later serving as Physician-in-Chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

Donald Metcalf

Donald Metcalf (1929–2014) was an Australian medical researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, called the father of modern hematology for discovering colony-stimulating factors.

Eugene P. Cronkite

Eugene P. Cronkite (1914–2001) was an American hematologist and radiation biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who pioneered blood cell kinetics, studied radiation injury, and led the American Society of Hematology in 1971.

Hal E. Broxmeyer

Hal E. Broxmeyer (1944–2021) was an American experimental hematologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who established umbilical cord blood as a source of transplantable stem cells.

Hartmut Geiger

Hartmut Geiger is a German-based biochemist and hematologist known for research on hematopoietic stem cell aging, including the Cdc42 mechanism, and directs molecular medicine at Universität Ulm.

Irving L. Weissman

Irving L. Weissman is an American physician-scientist at Stanford University whose laboratory first isolated the blood-forming stem cell in mice and humans, and later defined the CD47 "don't eat me" signal targeted in cancer immunotherapy.

James N. Ihle

James N. Ihle is an American biochemist who spent most of his career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, discovered interleukin-3 in 1981, and defined the JAK-STAT cytokine signaling pathway.

John P. Chute

John P. Chute (John Chute) is an American hematologist and stem cell biologist who directs the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai Cancer since 2020.

Kenneth Kaushansky

Kenneth Kaushansky is an American hematologist known for discovering thrombopoietin, the hormone regulating platelet production, and for serving as Editor-in-Chief of Blood and Dean of Stony Brook University's medical school.

Koichi Akashi

Koichi Akashi is a Japanese hematologist and professor at Kyushu University known for identifying the blood system's common lymphoid and myeloid progenitors and for leukemia stem cell research.

Lei Ding

Lei Ding is a stem cell biologist and professor at Columbia University Medical Center since 2013, known for identifying the bone marrow cells that maintain hematopoietic stem cells.

Leon Orris Jacobson

Leon Orris Jacobson (1911–1992) was an American hematologist at the University of Chicago whose 1943 nitrogen mustard trials were among the first forms of chemotherapy.

Malcolm A.S. Moore

Malcolm A.S. Moore (1944–2025) was a British-born hematologist and cell biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for defining how blood-forming cells develop and for isolating G-CSF.

Neal S. Young

Neal S. Young, also known as Neal Young, is an American hematologist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute known for work on aplastic anemia.

Niels Borregaard

Niels Borregaard (1951–2017) was a Danish physician-scientist and hematologist who defined the cell biology of the neutrophil granulocyte, discovering the secretory vesicle and the antimicrobial proteins NGAL and hCAP-18.

Paul S. Frenette

Paul S. Frenette (1965–2021) was a Canadian hematologist and stem cell biologist who founded and led the Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Peter J. Quesenberry

Peter J. Quesenberry (1938–2025) was an American hematologist-oncologist and stem cell researcher at Brown University, known for the stem cell continuum and extracellular vesicle research.

R. Keith Humphries

R. Keith Humphries is a Canadian hematology researcher and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, known for showing that the gene HOXB4 can expand blood-forming stem cells outside the body.

Radek C. Skoda

Radek C. Skoda, also published as Radek Skoda, is a physician-scientist in experimental hematology whose laboratory identified the JAK2-V617F mutation, the most frequent cause of myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Ravi Bhatia

Ravi Bhatia is a hematologist-oncologist and leukemia stem cell researcher from New Delhi, India, who served as Deputy Director of the UAB O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Simón Méndez‐Ferrer

Simón Méndez-Ferrer is a Spanish hematology researcher, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature finding that circadian rhythms regulate blood stem cell release.

Stavroula Kousteni

Stavroula Kousteni is a physiologist at Columbia University, where she directs the Edward P. Evans Center for Myelodysplastic Syndromes and studies bone's hormonal role in metabolism and blood cancers.

Steven C. Clark

Steven C. Clark is an immunologist and hematopoiesis researcher at Genetics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for cloning the colony-stimulating factors that regulate blood cell production.

Thalia Papayannopoulou

Thalia Papayannopoulou is a hematologist and cell biologist at the University of Washington who showed fetal hemoglobin can be reactivated in adults and identified VLA-4's role in stem cell movement.

Toshio Kitamura

Toshio Kitamura is a Japanese hematologist at the University of Tokyo known for the TF-1 cell line and retrovirus vectors used in over 8,000 laboratories.

Tsvee Lapidot

Tsvee Lapidot is an Israeli hematologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for identifying human leukemia-initiating cells and defining bone marrow stem cell niches.