Darryl Shibata
Associate Professor of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine Member, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Contact at: (323) 226-7067 or dshibata@usc.edu
Expertise:
- cancer genetics
- cancer pathologies
- tumor progression
- molecular tumor clocks
- molecular biology of tumor growth
and development
- tumor phylogenetics - a method of
looking at genetic changes in cells
to reconstruct the lineage of a
particular tumor
- genetic analysis to determine when
malignant mutations are acquired
- genetic analysis to determine the
number of cell divisions that
intervene between tumor initiation
and clinical presentation
- applications of computational
biology techniques to oncology
- relationship between colorectal cancers (carcinomas) and the polyps (adenomas) that typically precede them
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