Garth L. Nicolson
The Institute for Molecular Medicine, USA
Biography
Professor Emeritus Garth L. Nicolson is the Founder, President, Chief Scientific Officer and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Pathology at the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach, California. He was formally the David Bruton Jr Chair in Cancer Research and Professor and Chairman at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and he was Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He has published over 650 medical and scientific papers, including editing 20 books, and has served on the Editorial Boards of 30 medical and scientific journals and was Senior Editor of four. Professor Nicolson has won many awards, such as the Burroughs Welcome Medal, Royal Society of Medicine (United Kingdom), Stephen Paget Award, Metastasis Research Society, U.S. National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award, and the Innovative Medicine Award, Canada. He is also a Colonel (O6, Honorary), U.S. Army Special Forces and a U.S. Navy SEAL (Honorary) for his work on Armed Forces and veterans’ illnesses.