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Leonard I. Zon, MD

Leonard I. Zon, MD

Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Class of 2025

For fundamental research contributions to the establishment of zebrafish as a viable and effective model for the investigation of hematopoiesis and cancer, which led to the discovery of neural crest transformation as a driver of melanoma initiation and PGE2’s critical role in enhancing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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