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Born | 1960 Paris, France |
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Website | The Michel Sadelain Lab |
Michel Sadelain (born 1960) is a genetic engineer and cell therapist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, where he holds the Steve and Barbara Friedman Chair.[2] He is the founding director of the Center for Cell Engineering and the head of the Gene Transfer and Gene Expression Laboratory. He is a member of the department of medicine at Memorial Hospital and of the immunology program at the Sloan Kettering Institute.[2] He is best known for his major contributions to T cell engineering and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy, an immunotherapy based on the genetic engineering of a patient's own T cells to treat cancer.[3] Dr. Sadelain is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of France[4] and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[5]