Jason Sheltzer, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Surgery (Oncology) and of Genetics
Biography
Dr. Jason Sheltzer received his PhD from MIT, where he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Angelika Amon in the Koch Institute for Cancer Research. As a graduate student at MIT, Dr. Sheltzer studied the effects of aneuploidy, or chromosome copy number imbalances, on cellular physiology. His work revealed several novel consequences of aneuploidy, including unanticipated effects of aneuploidy on homologous recombination, transcription, and tumor suppression. After completing his PhD, Dr. Sheltzer established his own research group as an Independent Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The Sheltzer Lab's research is dedicated to understanding the genomic causes of cancer progression and therapeutic vulnerabilities. In 2021, Dr. Sheltzer joined the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor.
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Surgical Oncology
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryGenetics
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
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Education & Training
- Independent Fellow
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2021)
- PhD
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015)
- AB
- Princeton University (2008)
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Chromosomal instability and drug resistance
Chromosomal instability creates cancer heterogeneity and accelerates tumor evolution.
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- June 04, 2024
Surgery Research Presented at Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale
- April 01, 2024
YCC, Smilow Awardees Honored
- October 20, 2023
Yale-led Research Explains Why Many Cancer Drugs Fail During Clinical Trial Testing
- July 06, 2023Source: The Washington Post
Gene Editing Helped Crack a 100-year-old Mystery about Cancer
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