About Douglas A. Melton
Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who is the Xander University Professor at Harvard University, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2022. Melton is a co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was an original co-chairman of the Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Melton founded of several biotech companies including Gilead Sciences, Ontogeny, iPierian, and Semma Therapeutics. Melton is a member of the National Academy of the Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a founding member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. In 2016, Melton was awarded the Ogawa-Yamanaka Prize in Stem Cell Biology. He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in the history and philosophy of science in 1977 and a PhD under the supervision of John Gurdon. He also pioneered the technique of in vitro transcription with bacterial SP6 RNA polymerase.
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