Sean Morrison

Dr. Sean J. Morrison is the Director of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His laboratory studies the mechanisms that regulate stem cell function in adult tissues and the ways in which those mechanisms get hijacked by cancer cells to enable tumor formation and metastasis. Dr. Morrison was elected President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2015, to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. In addition to science, he has been active in public policy issues surrounding stem cell research, testifying before the U.S. Congress and serving as a leader in the successful Proposal 2 campaign to protect and regulate stem cell research in Michigan’s state constitution. In 2022, the ISSCR recognized Dr. Morrison’s work on stem cell policy with their Public Service Award.