Felix Mitelman, born August 26, 1940 is a Swedish geneticist and is Professor of Clinical Genetics in Lund, Sweden. He is best known for his pioneering work on chromosome changes in cancer.
He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Board of the European Cytogeneticists Association. In 2007 he was awarded the Nordic Fernström prize and in 2008 the Söderberg Prize in Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer.
In total, Mitelman has co-authored more than 700 academic papers. He maintains a database of all published chromosome aberrations in neoplastic disorders, with clinical features, now numbering more than 57,000 cases (as of November 2009).[1][2] The Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer also contains information on the molecular genetic and clinical consequences of cancer-associated chromosome aberrations. The database is available on-line. (See below.)
"Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer". Cancer Genome Anatomy Project. http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/Chromosomes/Mitelman. Retrieved 2008-03-01.