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Soma Das, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics

 

Dr. Das earned her Ph.D. in 1991 from University College London. She currently serves as the Director of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. Board certified in clinical molecular genetics, Dr. Das is also a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. Her interests are in the molecular diagnosis of genetic disease, in particular establishing novel assays to improve molecular diagnosis of cancers and rare genetic disease. Her research interests include the characterization of genetic changes and DNA methylation in genetic disease and cancer and the study of their role in disease development and genotype-phenotype correlations.