Felix Mitelman

Felix Mitelman is a Swedish geneticist and is Professor of Clinical Genetics in Lund, Sweden. He is best known for his pioneering work on chromosome changes in cancer, and has worked on haematological malignancies and solid tumors.

He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Board of the European Cytogeneticists Association. In 2008, he was awarded the Nordic Fernström prize.

Key publications

In total, Mitelman has co-authored more than 700 academic papers. He maintains a complete database of all published neoplastic disorders, with clinical features, now numbering more than 53,000 cases. The Mitleman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer is available on-line. (See below.)

Reference

*Euorpean Cytogeneticists Association Newsletter 21 (Jan 2008). Prestigious prize to E.C.A. board member Professor Felix Mielman. p. 23.

External links

cite web
url = http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/Chromosomes/Mitelman
title = Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer
publisher = Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
accessdate = 2008-03-01