Biography
Dr. Chanock received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1983 and completed clinical training in pediatrics, pediatric infectious diseases, and pediatric hematology/oncology and research training in molecular genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston. Afterwards, he joined the NCI Pediatric Oncology Branch where he eventually became a Senior Investigator. Dr. Chanock’s scientific research has been focused on the contribution of genetic variation to cancer risk and outcomes. For five years, he served as Co-Chair of the NCI’s Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics Faculty. In 2001, he became director of the NCI Core Genotyping Facility and in 2005 he became co-leader of the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) project. In 2007, he became the Chief of the newly formed Laboratory of Translational Genomics.
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