2013 Lung Cancer Research Foundation Annual Grant Program
William Lee, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Research Project:
Development and application of a genomic classifier for cigarette smoke exposure in lung adenocarcinoma to gain insight into smoking-related and never-smoker lung cancers
Summary:
Dr. Lee’s study analyzes somatic and germ line variants in the various subgroups of patients to identify genes associated with mutation patterns and patients’ susceptibility to genomic damage from smoke exposure.