George Q. Daley

George Q. Daley is dean of Harvard Medical School and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine. Daley earned his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard, his PhD in biology at MIT with David Baltimore, and his MD summa cum laude from HMS. He trained in medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in hematology/ oncology at the Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals. He served as chief resident in medicine at MGH, and joined the MGH heme/onc faculty while running a laboratory as a Whitehead Fellow at the Whitehead Institute. He later moved to Boston Children’s Hospital, where he practiced hematology and directed the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s. He became professor of biological chemistry at HMS in 2010 and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2007 until 2017, when he resigned to become Dean. Daley was an inaugural winner of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and has received the American Philosophical Society’s Judson Daland Prize, the American Pediatric Society’s E. Mead Johnson Award, the American Society of Hematology’s E. Donnall Thomas Prize and the International CML Foundation’s Janet Rowley Prize. He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Association of American Physicians, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Daley has authored international guidelines for stem cell research and clinical translation through his work with the International Society for Stem Cell Research, where he served as president (2008).