David Scadden

Chair
Founder

David Scadden is one of Magenta’s co-founders and has served on our Board of Directors and as chair of our Scientific Advisory Board since November 2016. Dr. Scadden is the Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine at Harvard University. He and Professor Douglas Melton founded and jointly direct the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which is the largest institute dedicated to bringing stem cell biology to medical care in the world. With Professor Melton, Dr. Scadden founded the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department at Harvard University, the first department to span faculties in Harvard’s history, and served as chair of the department from January 2009 to September 2018.

Dr. Scadden is a hematologist/oncologist and directs the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and previously chaired the Hematologic Malignancies program in the MGH Cancer Center. He is an expert on the medical applications of stem cell biology with a particular emphasis on their use in the settings of cancer and AIDS. He has published over 350 scientific papers and book chapters, and his laboratory has made fundamental contributions in how the stem cell niche regulates stem cell function and in normal and disease-corrupted hematopoiesis. Dr. Scadden serves as a director on the board of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Editas Medicine, Inc. In addition, Dr. Scadden is a member of the board of several private companies, including Clear Creek Bio, Inc. and LifeVault Bio, Inc., and also serves on several scientific advisory boards, including Magenta’s. In addition, he has served or serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Cancer Institute, the Board of External Experts for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the Board of Directors of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Physicians.