Greehey CCRI Spring Seminar Series: Uttiya Basu, PhD (Columbia)
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Dr. Basu completed his PhD in Molecular Biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, followed by postdoctoral training in Immunology and Cancer Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Boston. His laboratory is interested in understanding the genetic and epigenetic regulatory pathways required for adaptive immunity. He is specifically focused on understanding how non-coding DNA and RNA segments in the mammalian genome define the development and differentiation of immune cell subtypes in the tissue microenvironment. He is an NIH Director’s Innovator Awardee, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow, Lymphoma Research Foundation Fellow, Pershing Square Foundation Cancer Research Prize winner, Irvington CRI Fellow, elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected fellow of the Henry Kunkel Society, and VAIBHAV awardee.