Michael M. Gottesman

Michael M. Gottesman is the Deputy Director for Intramural Research at the National Institutes of Health and Chief of the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute. He obtained his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, completed his internship and residency in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and received his postdoctoral research training in molecular genetics with Martin Gellert at the NIH before returning to Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy. Positions at NIH include Chief of the Molecular Cell Genetics Section of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI NIH, in 1980, and Chief of the Laboratory of Cell Biology in 1990. In 1992 he was Acting Director of the National Center for Human Genome Research. Since 1993 he has been the NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research. Recognition has included election to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) in 2003, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.