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Preventive Pros
This podcast is brought to you by the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Join us as we dive into the population and public health topics involved in our research and initiatives. Meet our researchers and learn first-hand what they are up to in the field, why this work is so important, and what the future may hold.
Preventive Pros
Pursuing Prevention of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) with Adam de Smith, PhD
Adam de Smith, PhD is an assistant professor of population and public health sciences in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC. He is a member of the USC Center for Genetic Epidemiology and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. de Smith is a genetic epidemiologist with a research focus on identifying the causes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer. He leads studies investigating the role of common and rare genetic variants in ALL etiology, with a particular interest in elucidating the increased ALL risk in Latinos. He also leads a study of leukemia in children with Down syndrome, the International Study of Down Syndrome Acute Leukemia (IS-DSAL), investigating genetic and epigenetic variation associated with risk of DS-ALL. In addition, de Smith utilizes whole genome sequencing of tumors to examine potential causative agents such as DNA mutational signatures as molecular footprints of environmental exposures.
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