Magnus K. Magnusson is a physician-scientist and board certified hematologist. He is Professor of Pharmacology and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Iceland –Medical School. He is also consulting hematologist at the Department of Laboratory Hematology and Executive Chair of the Research Biobank of the Division of Laboratory Medicine at the University Hospital. He received his medical degree from the University of Iceland. After finishing his residency (Internal Medicine, Clinical Investigator Pathway) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison he did his clinical and research fellowship in hematology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda Maryland. During his medical studies and post-graduate training he has worked endothelial cell signalling with Dr. Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, the cell biology of extracellular matrix with Dr. Deane Mosher in Madison and later with Dr. Cynthia Dunbar at the NHLBI on the molecular and stem cell biology of leukemia.