Michael Green

Michael Green (January 20, 1954 – February 10, 2023) was an American molecular biologist and cell biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was the chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, director of the UMass Cancer Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Green was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.

Education and academic career Green received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He then went on to Washington University School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1981 with his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry under the supervision of Robert G. Roeder.

Research Research in Green's laboratory focused on gene regulation, particularly on the regulation of gene transcription and of RNA splicing. The group also studies the effects of regulatory patterns on the behavior of cancer cells, using genome-wide RNA interference screens to identify genes involved in cell proliferation or apoptosis in the context of oncogenic mutations.

Death Green died on February 10, 2023, at the age of 69.