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Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Lewis Cantley is a cell biologist and a professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Among his research contributions are the discovery and study of the enzyme PI-3-kinase, now known to be important to understanding cancer and diabetes mellitus. He is also the Director of Cancer Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.