Speaker

Dr. Peter Van Loo is a Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research focusses on leveraging massively parallel sequencing efforts to study the evolutionary history of cancers. Peter developed computational techniques to study copy-number alterations in cancer genomes, and approaches to study the evolutionary history and subclonal architecture of tumors from whole-genome sequencing data, a field coined “molecular archeology of cancer”. His work has sketched the typical evolutionary trajectories of many cancer types, allowing insight into the timelines of cancer development, as well as insight into how tumors metastasize. Peter has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize in 2015, a VIB Alumni Award in 2017, and a UT STARs Award in 2022.

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