Leland Hartwell
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Phone: 480-727-0779
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Mail code: 7805Campus: Tempe
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Leland Hartwell led a research team at the Department of Genetics, University of Washington using cell biology and genetics to investigate how yeast cells divide from 1968 to 1997. They discovered two cellular pathways that are integrated by an overall control point regulating cell division and a signaling pathway that arrests cell division in response to DNA damage.
From 1997-2010, he was president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. During that period the FHCRC completed its expansion and consolidation to the South Lake Union campus and formed the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in partnership with the University of Washing and Seattle Children’s Hospital. He advised the the National Cancer Institute in the creation the NCI CPTAC proteomics program and organized an international cancer proteomics consortium devoted to the early detection of cancer.
He joined the faculty of the Arizona State University in 2010. He is the Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine, with appointments in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and School of Sustainability. He is the director of the Biodesign Pathfinder Center and leads a small team that developed and teaches a course, Sustainability Science for all pre-service K-8 Teachers.He also heads the HoneyBee program at ASU overseeing a series of small clinical trials using wearable devices to monitor physiological parameters in clinical patients for a variety of diseases.
He also has an appointment as Distinguished Faculty at Chang Gung University and Hospital system in Taiwan where he advises a Biosignatures Program seeking to discover biomarkers in oral cancer, colon cancer and other diseases and to implement wearable devices in clinical management.
Professor Hartwell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Other honors include the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Award in cancer research, and the Genetics Society Medal of Honor.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1964
- Hartwell,Leland Harrison*, Birt,Michael. Sustainable Health Award (ASUF 30005499). ASU FDN(12/1/2012 - 4/30/2016).
- Hartwell,Leland Harrison*, Birt,Michael, Nelson,Alan C, Poste,George Henry. Virginia G Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics. ASU FDN(12/7/2007 - 6/30/2013).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
LIA 294 | Special Topics |
LIA 294 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
BCH 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BCH 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CHM 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
CHM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
CHM 493 | Honors Thesis |
BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CHM 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
LIA 294 | Special Topics |
LIA 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
LIA 498 | Pro-Seminar |
LIA 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
LIA 294 | Special Topics |
LIA 294 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CSE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 498 | Pro-Seminar |
BIO 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CSE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CSE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HUL 494 | Special Topics |
HUL 598 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
FIS 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CSE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 294 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BME 592 | Research |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
SOS 394 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CSE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
- 2008, Honorary Academician, Academica Sinica, Republic of China
- 2008, Washington State Academy of Sciences (Founding Class)
- 2007, Honorary Doctor of Science, Arizona State University
- 2005, Distinguished Scientist Award – Association of American Cancer Institutes
- 2004, Alfred G. Knudson Award in Cancer Genetics – National Cancer Institute
- 2004, Honorary Professor, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- 2004, Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- 2003, State of Washington, State Medal of Merit
- 2001, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2000, The Massry Prize – The Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation
- 1999 California Institute of Technology - Distinguished Alumni Award
- 1999 City of Medicine Award
- 1999 American Cancer Society Medal of Honor
- 1998 American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership
- 1998 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
- 1998 Brinker International Award for Basic Science - Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- 1996 Passano Award
- 1996 Carnegie Mellon Dickson Prize
- 1995 MGH Warren Triennial Prize
- 1995 Columbia University Horwitz Award
- 1995 Keith Porter Award, Amer Soc Cell Biology
- 1994 Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Katherine Berkan Judd Award
- 1994 Genetics Society of America Medal
- 1993 Brandeis University Rosenstiel Award
- 1992 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1992 University of Chicago Simon Shubitz Award
- 1991 General Motors Sloan Award
- 1991 Hoffman LaRoche Mattia Award
- 1990 National Institutes of Health Merit Award
- 1990-1997 American Cancer Society Research Professor Genetics
- 1983-1984 American Cancer Society Scholar
- 1973 Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and Immunology
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences