Dr. John Schiller is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) distinguished investigator and a professor at the National Cancer Institute at the NIH. Schiller completed his bachelor’s degree in molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1975), and received a doctorate degree in Microbiology at the University of Washington in Seattle (1982). Schiller continued his training at the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology as a National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow. He became a senior investigator in 1986, and in 2016 he was designated as an NIH Distinguished Investigator.
For his scientific contributions, Schiller received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2012), the American Society for Microbiology’s Joseph Public Health Award (2017), and the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2017). Learn more about Schiller’s research at his lab website.