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ISB Hosts TCGA Meeting

Ilya Shmulevich, PhD, ISB Faculty

Ilya Shmulevich, PhD, shares this message about our hosting a TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) steering committee meeting at ISB. In the video below, Ilya explains the purpose of the meeting and chats briefly about “pan-cancer” – the effort to find commonalities among multiple cancers.

Related content: Read about ISB’s role in TCGA as a Genome Data Analysis Center and about the most recent collaborative paper on endometrial cancer, which was published on May 1 in the journal Nature and covered by The New York Times.

 

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