Dr. Paul Mischel is the Lya and Harrison Latta Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Mischel graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and trained in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology at UCLA.  Dr. Mischel obtained his post-doctoral research training in the laboratory of Dr. Louis F. Reichardt at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSF and joined the UCLA faculty in 1998. Dr. Mischel has received a number of awards, including the Farber Award in 2007, the top brain tumor research award given jointly by the Society for Neuro-oncology and the American Association of Neurosurgery. Dr. Mischel's work was profiled by the Journal of Cell Biology in June 2008 (http://jcb.rupress.org/cgi/content/full/181/7/1044). Dr. Mischel was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2007 and was elected to serve on their council. He is currently the President of the ASCI(http://www.the-asci.org/).