Darryl Shibata
- Associate Professor of Pathology, Keck School of MedicineMember, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Expertise Summary
Expert in cancer genetics and pathologies, tumor progression, clocks, and methods of growth
Expertise
- cancer genetics
- cancer pathologies
- tumor progression
- molecular tumor clocks
- molecular biology of tumor growth and development
- tumor phylogenetics - a method of looking at genetic changes in cells to reconstruct the lineage of a particular tumor
- genetic analysis to determine when malignant mutations are acquired
- genetic analysis to determine the number of cell divisions that intervene between tumor initiation and clinical presentation
- applications of computational biology techniques to oncology
- relationship between colorectal cancers (carcinomas) and the polyps (adenomas) that typically precede them