Zenta Walther, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology; Clinical Director, YNHH Tumor Profiling Laboratory; Director, Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship Program
Departments & Organizations
Pathology: Experimental Pathology Graduate Program | Molecular & Genomic Pathology | Surgical Pathology
Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
Office of Cooperative Research
Biography
Dr. Walther is a physician-scientist with clinical expertise in gastrointestinal and liver pathology, the molecular diagnostics of surgical pathology specimens, and molecular oncology of solid tumors. As Clinical Director of the YNHH Tumor Profiling Laboratory, she focuses on molecular and genomic analyses of solid tumor specimens, to enable the identification of therapeutic targets within individual patients' cancers, and thus to promote precision medicine in oncology.
Education & Training
| MD | Cornell University (1995) |
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| PhD | Rockefeller University (1994) |
| BS | Yale University (1986) |
| Fellow | Yale University School of Medicine |
| Fellow | Yale University School of Medicine |
| Resident | Yale University School of Medicine |
| Board Certification | AB of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology (2001) |
| Board Certification | AB of Pathology, Molecular Genetic Pathology (2011) |
