David I Smith
Mayo Clinic, USA
Biography
David I Smith is an expert on DNA sequencing and is the Chairman of the Technology Assessment Group for the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. His research focuses on the role that the common fragile sites play in cancer development. His group also studies the different ways that human papillomavirus plays in the development of different cancers. They have been using several whole genome sequencing strategies to study these two important questions.