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    Elaine R. Mardis, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Co-Executive Director, The Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Powell, Ohio, United States

    Elaine Mardis, PhD is co-Executive Director of the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and holds the Rasmussen Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Genomic Medicine. She also is a Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Elaine is an internationally recognized expert in cancer genomics and immunogenomics, with over 550 published manuscripts. She co-led the effort to sequence and analyze the first cancer genome using massively parallel sequencing technology and was integral to large-scale cancer genomics discovery projects including The Cancer Genome Atlas and the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. Her ongoing research interests lie in the clinical profiling of pediatric cancer DNA and RNA to identify somatic and germline contributors to cancer onset and to characterize the tumor immune microenvironment, with a focus on pediatric cancers and precision oncology. She is principal investigator of an NCI-funded study that performs clinical molecular profiling of pediatric cancers and has evaluated over 4500 cases to-date. Dr. Mardis is the former President of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.

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