Christopher Hourigan

Christopher Hourigan
Alma materOxford University
Known forAcute Myeloid Leukemia and Measurable Residual Disease
AwardsAlpha Omega Alpha, Johns Hopkins Chapter
Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians,
NHLBI Directors Award
NHLBI Orloff Award
NIH Bench to Bedside Award
NIH Directors Challenge Innovation Award
American College of Physicians Early Career Physician Award
American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019)
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Institutes of Health
Websitehttps://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/myeloid-malignancies

Christopher Hourigan is a physician-scientist known for work on measurable residual disease (MRD; previously termed minimal residual disease) in acute myeloid leukemia.

He was previously Chief of the Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and founding co-director of the Myeloid Malignancies Program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.