Salil Garg, MD, PhD
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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.
Appointments
Laboratory Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryPathology
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Genomics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Janeway Society
- Laboratory Medicine
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Pathology
- Program in Translational Biomedicine (PTB)
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Stem Cell Center
- YCCEH
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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News
- February 28, 2024
Grants Awarded at YCC • 2024