Associate Professor
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Dr. Malachi Griffith completed a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Biochemistry and Biology in 2002 at the University of Winnipeg, followed by additional formal training in computer science. He worked as a molecular biologist and then as a computational biologist during 2003-2004 before beginning a PhD in Medical Genetics and Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia under the mentorship of Dr. Marco Marra. He defended his PhD thesis in December, 2009, and joined Washington University School of Medicine in 2011. Dr. Griffith now has more than 15 years of experience in the fields of genomics, bioinformatics, data mining, and cancer research. He has published over 120 studies, received numerous research awards and honors and held several large grants including an NIH K99/R00 Career Development Award and V Scholar Award. He has mentored more than 30 bioinformatics trainees and taught more than 500 as an instructor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops. Dr. Griffith’s research is focused on improving our understanding of cancer biology and the development of personalized medicine strategies for cancer using genomics and informatics technologies. Dr. Griffith’s lab has made substantial contributions to open source and open access resources for cancer research. Recently, the development of bioinformatics for immunogenomics has become a major focus of his lab.
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An Introduction to the ClinGen Somatic Cancer Organization and Procedures
Saturday, November 18, 2023
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM MST