Scott A. Armstrong | |
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Born | Lawton, Oklahoma, US |
Academic background | |
Education | BSc, chemistry, 1989, University of Oklahoma MD, PhD, 1994, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Thesis | Molecular and biochemical characterization of Rab geranylgeranyl transferase (1994) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medical College |
Website | armstronglab |
Scott Allen Armstrong is an American pediatric oncologist and cancer biologist focused on chromatin-based control of gene expression in cancer and therapeutic discovery. Armstrong and his team were the first to isolate rare leukemia stem cells in a mouse model of leukemia.