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Michael Hemann is a professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He earned a bachelor's degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Wesleyan University in 1993 and a doctorate in human genetics from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001. His doctoral research was honored with the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Scott Lowe at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, supported by the Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship and Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Grant, he joined MIT in 2006. Hemann's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer and developing personalized medicine approaches to improve treatment outcomes. He employs high-throughput screening and pre-clinical models to identify novel cancer drug targets and tailoring treatment strategies to overcome cancer's protective mechanisms against therapy.