Susan Mackem | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
Alma mater | University of Chicago Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anatomic pathology |
Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
Thesis | Construction of chimeric genes for studying the regulation of herpes simplex virus a gene expression (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard Roizman |
Susan Marie Mackem (born 1954)[1] is an American anatomic pathologist and physician-scientist. She researches vertebrate primary axis formation and the regulation of patterning and differentiation during limb development. She is a senior investigator and head of the regulation of vertebrate morphogenesis section at the National Cancer Institute's Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. She is also an attending pathologist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.