Paul Mischel, MD

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PAUL MISCHEL , MD
Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Paul Mischel is an Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the scientific director of the Sarkaria Biomarkers program and co-director of the Cancer Stem Cell Program in the newly formed UCLA Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine. Dr. Mischel received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and trained in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology at UCLA. Dr. Mischel did his post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Louis F. Reichardt at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSF. Dr. Mischel's laboratory has expertise in quantitative analysis of signal transduction pathways, stem-cell related pathways, and gene expression networks in clinical samples. His laboratory focuses on the development and application of molecularly targeted therapies and on the application of emerging technologies to identify the patients most likely to benefit from these new treatments.