Dr. David I Smith
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology,Mayo Clinic,USA
Biography
David I Smith is the Chairman of the Technology Assessment Group for the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. He is an expert of advanced DNA sequencing methodologies and how to use these to study the molecular alterations that occur during cancer development. His research focuses on the different roles that human papillomavirus plays in the development of different cancers. His group also studies genome instability during cancer development and the role that the common fragile sites plays in this.