Michael J Powell
Managing Director, Scientific Programs and Initiatives @American Association for Cancer Research
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WORK HISTORY
Managing Director, Scientific Programs and Initiatives @American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, PA, US
EDUCATION
Jefferson Health
PhD, Genetics and Cancer Biology
ABOUT MICHAEL J POWELL
Scientist with broad knowledge of scientific fields whose career aspirations are to facilitate the enhancement of cancer research throughout the world as well as to improve the knowledge of scientific research within public, scientific, and legislative communities.Past areas of laboratory research included characterizing the function of sirtuins in multiple tissues (prostate, breast, brain, liver, pancreas) and disease states (prostate and breast cancer, Kallmann\'s syndrome) to determine whether drugs that modulate these proteins represent plausible therapeutic targets. Research has also included the investigation of chemical-mediated cell death mechanisms in infant acute myeloid leukemia to determine how such drugs can be tailored to patients with specific cancer-causing genetic abnormalities. Specialties: Cancer research, communication, collaboration, cancer data science and artificial intelligence, science administration, program development, team building, mentoring, project management, scientific/science writing, public speaking, cell and molecular biology, epigenetics, genetics and genomics, endocrinology, sirtuins, prostate cancer, hematologic malignancies, apoptosis, autophagy, murine development, pediatric cancer, radiation science and medicine, behavioral science, strategic planning, cancer evolution, cancer prevention, immunology, cancer chemistry, population sciences, pathology in cancer research, theranostics, survivorship research.
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