New York Cancer Genomics Research Network Meeting

To advance collaborative efforts on cancer genomics, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) hosts meetings on the first Tuesday of every month to bring together leading cancer researchers, clinicians and postdocs from the NYGC’s Institutional Founding Members and other key academic institutions.

These meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month; when held in person, they are attended by principal investigators and their trainees in the New York region, and are intended to be viewed by anyone in the world with an internet connection.

Any questions on this event, contact events@nygenome.org.

Speakers

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  Lydia Finley, PhD

  Assistant Member
  Cell Biology Program
  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Assistant Professor
  Weill Cornell Medical College

  "Metabolic Regulation of Cell Fate Decisions"

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  Vijay G. Sankaran, MD, PhD

  Lodish Family Chair, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  Attending Physician, Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
  Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation
  Principal Faculty Member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
  Associate Member, Broad Institute

  “Insights into Inherited Predisposition to Blood Cancers"

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  Chenxu Zhu, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego
  Core Member (Incoming 2022)
  New York Genome Center
  Assistant Professor (Incoming 2022), Department of Physiology and Biophysics
  Institute for Computational Biomedicine
  Weill Cornell Medicine

  "Joint Analysis of Histone Modifications and Transcriptome in Single Cells"

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  Harold Varmus, MD

  Senior Associate Core Member
  New York Genome Center
  Lewis Thomas University
  Professor of Medicine
  Weill Cornell Medicine