Darryl Shibata

  • Associate Professor of Pathology, Keck School of MedicineMember, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Office: (323) 226-7067

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