Dr. David Wedge - Tumour Evolution in Diverse Human Populations
ITEB Seminar Series/Emerging Approaches for Tumor Analyses in Epidemiological Studies Workshop
April 20, 2023 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Online via Zoom
Speaker
David Wedge, Ph.D.
University of Manchester
Title
Tumour Evolution in Diverse Human Populations
Host
Maria Teresa Landi, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, ITEB and Senior Advisor for Genomic Epidemiology, TDRP
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About the Speaker
David Wedge is a Professor of Cancer Genomics and Data Science at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester. He was co-lead of the Evolution and Heterogeneity working group of the ICGC Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project and is currently one of the leaders of the Pan Prostate Cancer Group. Much of the research in the Wedge lab is focused on tumour evolution, from the initial transformation of normal cells to cancer, through the acquisition of treatment resistance and to the formation of metastatic lesions.
The Wedge group have pioneered the development of computational methods to study heterogeneity in primary and metastatic cancers. Recently, the focus of the lab has shifted towards understudied populations, including the genomics of breast, ovarian, oesophageal and prostate cancers in ethnically diverse populations globally and the genomics of lung cancer in non-smokers.
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