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Wan Lam, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Cancer Genetics and Developmental Biology Department at the BC Cancer Agency. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He received a B.Sc. in Microbiology at the University of Alberta and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Dalhousie University. Dr. Lam worked as a research fellow at Harvard University as well, studying with Nobel Laureate Walter Gilbert.
Dr. Lam is interested primarily in the early events within cells that go awry, leading to cancer. He has studied many different genes and many different cancers in the hope of determining the small genetic changes necessary for their formation. At his lab in the BC Cancer Research Center, he investigates the genomics of early stage cancer and hopes to take the information amassed at the Human Genome Project into clinical use. He is an active member of Genome British Columbia and is among the leaders of cancer research in the world. With the BCCA Lymphoma Research Group, he helped map and monitor genes of interest that were associated with lymphoma progression and occurrence.
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