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Joan Massague is a world leader in research on signaling pathways and transcriptional programs that regulate normal cell behavior and cancer metastasis, became Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute in 2014. A native of Barcelona, Spain, Dr. Massague earned his PhD in pharmacy and biochemistry from the University of Barcelona in 1978. In 1982, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, where he worked on mechanisms of insulin action. Later that year, he became assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 1989, Dr. Massagué joined Memorial Sloan Kettering as the Alfred P. Sloan Chair in Cancer Biology and was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He served as Chairman of the Sloan Kettering Institute Cell Biology Program from 1989 to 2003 and has been a Founding Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program since 2003. He is also a professor at Weill-Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Dr. Massagué is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Spanish Royal Academies of Medicine and of Pharmacy, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Passano Prize, the Vilcek Prize, the BBVA Frontiers of Science Prize, the Prince of Asturias Prize, the Pasarow Prize, and other honors. Dr. Massagué is the first incumbent of the Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Foundation Chair.