Louis Michael Staudt is a scientist at the National Cancer Institute, where he is co-chief of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch and the director of the Center for Cancer Genomics.

Staudt was born in 1955 in Michigan. ^[1] Staudt graduated from Harvard College in 1976 with a BA in biochemistry. He received his MD and PhD in immunology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1982. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wistar Institute, and an internship in Internal Medicine. From 1984 to 1988, he worked in the laboratory of David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow. ^{[2] [3]}

Staudt joined the National Cancer Institute in 1988. ^[2] His main area of research is the genomics of lymphoma. He has published over 250 papers. ^[4]

Staudt became director of the Center for Cancer Genomics in 2013. ^[4]

• 2002 NIH MERIT Award
• 2009 Dameshek Prize, American Society of Hematology
• 2011 NIH Distinguished Investigator
• 2013 Elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences