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Promotion of Dr. Nalla Palanisamy
Promotion of Dr. Nalla Palanisamy
MCTP faculty member Dr. Nalla Palanisamy was
promoted to Research Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology,
effective Spetember 1, 2012.
Dr. Palanisamy has been a member of MCTP
since 2007. He came to MCTP with an extensive experience in characterizing gene
fusions in cancer and focused on projects that would have significant
translational impact. He studies the genetic complexity of a subset of prostate
cancers patients lacking the well-known ETS gene fusions while developing novel
approaches to study chromosomal abberations. Early on he realized the potential
of the emerging next generation sequencing (NGS) technology to characterize the
cancer genome and exploited NGS methologies to discover novel gene fusions. He
has made significant progress in the application of NGS during the last four
years, evident in seminal publications in top-tier peer-reviewed journals such
as Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, PNAS and
Science. Please extend a congratulations to Dr.
Palanisamy on his achievement.
