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Tyler Jacks: Genetics of Cancer
May 1, 2009
Tyler Jacks director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, talks about his research on cancer and his career in genetics.

This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.

Tyler Jacks is the David H. Koch Professor of Biology and a leading researcher in the genetics of cancer. Jacks was named the 2005 Simon M. Shubitz Lecturer and Award recipient, and shared the 2005 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research awarded by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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