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Salil Garg, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine

Biography

Dr. Garg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine. His laboratory is interested in the processes that generate heterogeneity in development and cancer. Dr. Garg completed his bachelors in chemistry at the University of Chicago, followed by MD-PhD training in the Harvard-MIT combined program. His dissertation work utilized small regulatory RNA molecules to study cellular interactions in the immune system. Following clinical training in laboratory medicine and molecular genetic pathology, Dr. Garg completed postdoctoral fellowship with Phillip Sharp at MIT. Dr. Garg started his laboratory as a clinical fellow at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the Garg lab moved to Yale University in the fall of 2022. Dr. Garg is interested in how non-genetic changes arise naturally in cell populations, particularly in the contexts of development and cancer. The Garg lab studies how small RNAs and other gene regulatory events contribute to these non-genetic differences between cells, influencing their behavior, and how this information can be applied to build novel cancer diagnostics. Approaches include tools from RNA biology, cell biology, genomics, machine learning, and data science.

https://www.garglab.org


Appointments

Education & Training

Clinical Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017)
Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital (2016)
Fellow
Harvard Medical School (2015)
MD
Harvard Medical School, Health, Sciences, and Technology (2012)
PhD
Harvard Medical School, Immunology (2012)
BS
University of Chicago, Biochemistry (2003)
MS
University of Chicago, Chemistry (2003)

Board Certifications

  • Molecular Genetic Pathology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pathology
    Original Certification Date
    2021
  • Clinical Pathology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pathology
    Original Certification Date
    2017

Research

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Publications Timeline

A big-picture view of Salil Garg's research output by year.
5Publications

Publications

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2020

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