birth_place fields workplaces birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
barcelona , spain cancer biology memorial biomedicine sloan-kettering cancer center , institute for research in 30 april 1953 cancer metastasis joan biology and genetics program at memorial sloan-kettering cancer center ; massagué howard hughes medical institute investigator.jpg , phd , chair of the cancer joan massagué solé
 joan massagué university of barcelona , brown university
joan massagué solé

joan massagué solé -lrb- barcelona , april 30 , 1953 -rrb- , is a spanish scientist .
he is the director of the sloan-kettering institute and chair of the cancer biology and genetics program at memorial sloan-kettering cancer center .
an internationally recognized leader in the study of both cancer metastasis and growth factors that regulate cell behavior , he is also a professor at the weill cornell graduate school of medical sciences and a member of the national academy of sciences .
