From Metcalf to myeloproliferative neoplasms - a personal journey

The human myeloproliferative neoplasms constitute a biologically fascinating group of chronic myeloid malignancies. This perspective outlines how a postdoctoral fellowship working in Don Metcalf's unit proved a formative and immensely enjoyable experience for my family and me. It laid the foundation for a subsequent body of work over three decades that revealed the genetic basis of these diseases, defined how these genetic alterations subvert normal hematopoiesis, altered clinical practice, and provided insights of broad biological relevance for cancer and cytokine signaling. Crown Copyright (c) 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of ISEH - Society for Hematology and Stem Cells. All rights reserved.