Susan Mackem

Susan Marie Mackem (born 1954) is an American anatomic pathologist and physician-scientist. She researches vertebrate primary axis formation and the regulation of patterning and differentiation during limb development. She is a senior investigator and head of the regulation of vertebrate morphogenesis section at the National Cancer Institute's Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. She is also an attending pathologist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

Education Mackem undertook her graduate research on the regulation of herpes immediate early gene expression by VP16 with Bernard Roizman and received her Ph.D. as an MSTP trainee at the University of Chicago. She completed a M.D. at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and then went on to residency training in anatomic pathology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Career and research

Mackem became a staff member in the Laboratory of Pathology at the NCI. In 2009, she joined the Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory at Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. Mackem serves as an attending anatomic pathologist for the Laboratory of Pathology and National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She is a senior investigator and head of the regulation of vertebrate morphogenesis section.