Dr.ali Torkamani
Professor
structural biology
The Scripps Research University
France
Biography
Faculty, professor and researcher in Scripps Translational Science Institute-Department of Molecular and Experimental-Medicine.Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of California at San Diego,Blasker Science and Technology Award, Mario r. Alvarez Foundation Award.
Research Interest
Major focus areas include human genome interpretation and genetic dissection of novel rare diseases, predictive genomic signatures of response to therapy – especially cancer therapy, and novel sequencing-based assays as biomarkers of disease.
Publications
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Torkamani A, Schork NJ. Identification of rare cancer driver mutations by network reconstruction. Genome Res. 2009 Sep;19(9):1570-8.
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Wang F, Ekiert DC, Ahmad I, Yu W, Zhang Y, Bazirgan O, Torkamani A, Raudsepp T, Mwangi W, Criscitiello MF, Wilson IA, Schultz PG, Smider VV. Reshaping antibody diversity. Cell. 2013 Jun 6;153(6):1379-93.
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Torkamani A, Bersell K, Jorge BS, Bjork RL Jr, Friedman JR, Bloss CS, Cohen J, Gupta S, Naidu S, Vanoye CG, George AL Jr, Kearney JA. De novo KCNB1 mutations in epileptic encephalopathy. Ann Neurol. 2014 Oct;76(4):529-40
