Biography

Fernando Camargo, Ph.D., is a professor in the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard Medical School Department of Pediatrics. He is also a principal investigator in the Stem Cell Program of Boston Children's Hospital since 2009.

After receiving a Ph.D. in 2004 from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, studying the developmental plasticity of adult somatic stem cells in the laboratory of Margaret Goodell, Dr. Camargo then received a prestigious Whitehead fellowship at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, Massachusetts. There, he quickly established himself as an independent principal investigator and expert in the field of stem cell biology.

Dr. Camargo’s laboratory is well known for the seminal contributions to the understanding of the Hippo signaling pathway, particularly in the context of adult tissue regeneration and cancer development in a wide range of epithelial tissues. He has also heavily influenced the hematopoiesis field, developing various innovative technologies that enable cellular barcoding and thus clonal tracing with transcriptome analysis at a single cell resolution. Using these tools, his lab has made many important new discoveries about properties of stem cells, lineage and cell fate in blood.

Dr. Camargo received numerous awards. Amongst others, he was named a 2009 V Foundation Scholar and is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. More recently, he has received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the ISSCR’s Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator, and named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar. In February 2022, Dr. Camargo has been named the inaugural Regenerative Biology Endowed Chair of the HMS Department of Pediatrics.