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Dr. Francis Barany, Professor of Microbiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 7-12-07
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2007-07-12 12:30:00
Description: Cancer research, personalized medicine, Endo V mutation scanning, universal DNA arrays. Dr. Francis Barany is also Director of Mutation Research at the Strang Cancer Prevention Center. He is program director of two multi-center NCI and NIAID grants to develop new methods of cancer and infectious disease detection. Dr. Barany is best known for developing the ligase chain reaction and ligase detection reaction, and Universal DNA arrays for detection of genetic diseases and cancer-associated mutations. Dr. Barany was named to the 'SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 50' in 2004.
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