Laboratory Director
Lung Cancer Systems Genetics
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Putting Drug Development In Patients' Hands
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The Addario Lung Cancer Institute is building a virtual specimen bank where researchers can share patient specimens.
Allan Balmain, PhD
Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics,
UCSF CRI Laboratory
1) Genetic modifiers of cancer susceptibility; 2) Development of transgenic and knockout models for multistage tumor development; 3) Genetic alterations and biological changes during tumor invasion and metastasis.