Georgetown Lombardi Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds Lecture Series Featuring Ed Reznik, PhD

Title: “Recurrence, Selection, and Function of Somatic Mitochondrial DNA Alterations in Cancer”

Presented by:
Ed Reznik, PhD
Assistant Attending Computational Oncologist
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Also affiliated with the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology and the Urology Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sponsor: Michael Atkins, MD

Lecture Series Presented by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

About the Speaker:
Dr. Reznik is an Assistant Member in the Computational Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). He completed his undergraduate studies in biological and biomedical engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Reznik completed a Ph.D. with Daniel Segre at Boston University, studying genome-scale models of bacterial metabolism. He has worked at MSKCC since 2013, first as a postdoctoral fellow with Chris Sander and subsequently since 2017 as a faculty member. His lab uses computational and quantitative approaches to study tumor metabolism.