Yasser Riaz Alhosseini (PhD)
- Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics
- Investigator, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine
- Group Head of the Cancer Genomics program at the McGill University Genome Centre
PhD
Currently supervising students
Renal cell carcinoma
- While collaborating on genome characterization of different tumor entities, research in the lab is focused on following topics:
- Comprehensive molecular understanding of renal cell carcinoma
- Post-transcriptional regulatory programs in cancer
- Investigating intra-tumoral heterogeneity and its contribution to metastasis
- Cancer
- Genetics
I lead a research program that involves generating and analyzing large-scale cancer genomics data to study carcinogenesis and tumor progression at a molecular level, and to identify molecules that may have clinical applications for better diagnosis, prognosis or therapeutic use.
We are employing multiple technologies to generate global landscapes including genome, epigenome and transcriptome profiles of tumor specimens, and are applying diverse and integrative analytical approaches to these datasets in order to identify cancer-driving aberrations. Most of our projects utilize next-generation-sequencing (NGS) and include a computational data analysis component. We also undertake experimental approaches to functionally characterize promising candidate molecules identified from our genome-scale studies.
