Organizing Committee Member
David I Smith
Professor
Mayo Clinic
USA
Biography
David I Smith received his Ph.D. In 1978 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in Biochemistry. After postdoctoral training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of California, Irvine, he got his first faculty position at Wayne State University. Since 1996 he has been a full Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic. He is also the Chairman of the Technology Assessment Group for the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. His research focuses on genomic instability and the role that the common fragile sites play in cancer development. His group is also studying the different ways that human papilloma virus is involved in the development of different cancers. They utilize the powerful tool of next generation sequencing the study these problems.
Research Area
DNA sequencing revolution