Dir-Precision Genomics
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Dr. David A. Wheeler received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Zoology at the University of Maryland and his Ph.D in Molecular Genetics from the George Washington University where he studied transcription of endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses under Gordon Hager at the NCI. His Postdoctoral research was at Brandeis University studying the gentics of circadian rhythms under Jeffrey Hall; work that subsequently lead to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Pysiology and Medicine to Dr. Hall. Dr. Wheeler was a research faculty member of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine for 20, where he was a pioneer in the field of cancer genomics, contributing ground-breaking research into the detection and interpretation of somatic mutations in tumorigenesis through DNA and RNA sequencing in large-scale cancer cohorts. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the The Cancer Genome Atlas project, a member of the International Cancer Genome Consortium and serves on the editorial board of Genome Research. Dr. Wheeler joined St. Jude Children’s Hospital in May of this year where he is the Director for Precision Genomics. Since 2020, Dr Wheeler has applied his vast experience in cancer genomics to Clinical Genomics testing at St Jude Children's Research Hospital as Director of Precision Genomics.