Teng Gao

Teng Gao

Advisors: Peter Kharchenko and Peter Park
Teng Gao

What research experience did you have before grad school?


I worked as a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, where I studied clonal hematopoiesis (clonal mutations in the blood) in 32,000 cancer patients profiled by prospective clinical sequencing.

 

What is your research area and why is it exciting?

 

I am currently studying the age-related accumulation of DNA damages across human tissues, a process that represents the common link between aging and cancer, as well as a variety of other human diseases.

 

Why did you choose BIG?

 

The caliber of science as well as life in the city!

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