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CANCELLED - Translating Cancer Genomics to Clinical CareHHS Only

Air date: Monday, January 22, 2018, 3:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Description: NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Eminent Lectures

Elaine Mardis graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in zoology and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1989, also at Oklahoma. Dr. Mardis was a senior research scientist for four years at BioRad Laboratories. She joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1993, served as Co-director of the McDonnell Genome Institute since 2002, and was named the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine in 2014. In September 2016, she became the co-Executive Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Her research interests focus on the application of next-generation sequencing to characterize cancer genomes and transcriptomes, and to support therapeutic decision-making. Her translational research efforts devise sequencing-based diagnostics, decision-support tools and databases, and the use of genomics to design personalized cancer vaccines.
Author: Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D., Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair, Genomic Medicine, Co-Executive Director, Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
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