Primary Job Title President & CEO Primary Organization 
Coriell Institute for Medical Research
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Greater Philadelphia Area, Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
Michael Christman, PhD, is president and chief executive officer of the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. With an entrepreneurial spirit, Mike is guiding Coriell on new ventures in emerging science that will both further the Institute's research and add to the breadth of services it provides to scientists worldwide.
In 2007, Mike
initiated the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative® (CPMC®), a research study evaluating the utility of using the knowledge of genetics in medicine. The CPMC project now involves more than 7,500 participants in 48 states, multiple hospital partners, and numerous collaborators such as the University of Pennsylvania, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Boston University, Stanford University, Ohio State University and the United States Air Force. As a leader in the exploration of genomics, Coriell is paving the way toward the development of personalized medicine. In January of 2013 Coriell partnered with IBM to launch a for-profit spin off company, Coriell Life Sciences, to store and interpret human genome data in clinical settings.
Under Mike's leadership Coriell has also established a federally-funded Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell lab. This remarkable technology allows a skin or blood cell to be coaxed into becoming nearly any cell type in the body, opening new avenues for research, drug discovery and, eventually, therapy.
