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Yadav Sapkota, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

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Yadav Sapkota, PhD

Epidemiology and Cancer Control Department

MS 735

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 595-0309(phone)

(901) 595-5845(fax)

Affiliations

Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cancer Control and Survivorship Program

Education

BSc – Tribhuvan University, Nepal MSc – Vrije University Brussels (Molecular Biology), Belgium MSc – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Bioinformatics), Belgium PhD – University of Alberta, Canada

Research Interests

  • Pharmacogenomics of cancer therapies
  • Genetic epidemiology
  • Multi-omics (epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) and system genetics (e.g., eQTLs)
  • Functional genomics using human induced pluripotent stem cells
  • Polygenic risk prediction
  • Genetic contributions to health disparities

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