Dr. Arthur Sytkowski received his Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin and worked as a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, Bethesda. In 1977, he joined Harvard Medical School, and established his research on the structure and function of human erythropoietin.
Current research interests include therapeutic protein engineering, the control of blood cell differentiation, mechanisms of neoplasia, biological effects of microgravity, ligand/receptor biochemistry, growth factor signal transduction, gene regulation and cancer chemoprevention.