Michael S. Lawrence

Michael Scott Lawrence
Other namesMike Lawrence
Alma materBrandeis University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forMutSig[1][2]
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsMassachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Broad Institute
ThesisRNA polymerase ribozymes (2005)
Doctoral advisorDavid Bartel

Michael Scott Lawrence is an American geneticist best known for his work on mutational signatures. Lawrence is an assistant professor of pathology at the Harvard Medical School, Assistant Geneticist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and member of the Broad Institute.

  1. ^ Lawrence, Michael S.; Stojanov, Petar; Polak, Paz; Kryukov, Gregory V.; Cibulskis, Kristian; Sivachenko, Andrey (June 16, 2013). "Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes". Nature. 499: 214–218. doi:10.1038/nature12213. PMC 3919509.
  2. ^ Lawrence, Michael S.; Stojanov, Petar; Mermel, Craig H.; Robinson, James T.; Garraway, Levi A.; Golub, Todd R. (January 5, 2014). "Discovery and saturation analysis of cancer genes across 21 tumour types". Nature. 505: 495–501. doi:10.1038/nature12912. PMC 4048962.