Colleen Jackson-Cook, M.S., Ph.D.
Massey Cancer Center research program membership
Cancer Biology
Department affiliations
Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
Education
PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University (1985)
MS, West Virginia University (1980)
Research description
Our studies have focused on assessing acquired chromosomal instability, telomere alterations, and epigenetic alterations that arise in healthy tissues following chemotherapy for breast cancer. We also focus on providing diagnostic cytogenetic and genome-wide copy number (as well as loss of heterozygosity) tests for a variety of solid tumors/leukemia/lymphoma, along with developing/optimizing new diagnostic tests.
Disease focus of research
Breast, Sarcoma
Research keywords
Biomarkers,DNA damage,Epigenetics,Genomics,Mitosis
Published research (during tenure as a Massey Cancer Center member)
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