Bethany Davis, Ph.D.

Bethany Davis, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Clinical Genomics and Therapeutics Division

Bethany Davis, Ph.D.

Dr. Bethany Davis, an enrolled member of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, is a Research Assistant Professor within the Clinical Genomics and Therapeutics Division. She has expertise in elucidating the effects of exposures to environmental toxicants (heavy metals) and hyperglycemia in the kidney; her primary research focus involves the molecular characterization of and studying mutational signatures associated with kidney cancer in Native Americans.

Her future goals are to capitalize on the advancements of technology to apply her training and knowledge of cancer genomics to improve precision medicine for Native Americans, ultimately, bridging the gap in health disparities.

Dr. Davis earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2018 studying the effects of hyperglycemia and cadmium exposures in a kidney in vitro cell model system.

Diagnostic and Prognostic Potential of AKR1B10 in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma. DiStefano JK, Davis B. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Apr 5;11(4):486.

Somatic inactivating PTPRJ mutations and dysregulated pathways identified in canine malignant melanoma by integrated comparative genomic analysis. Hendricks WPD, Zismann V, Sivaprakasam K, Legendre C, Poorman K, Tembe W, Perdigones N, Kiefer J, Liang W, DeLuca V, Stark M, Ruhe A, Froman R, Duesbery NS, Washington M, Aldrich J, Neff MW, Huentelman MJ, Hayward N, Brown K, Thamm D, Post G, Khanna C, Davis B, Breen M, Sekulic A, Trent JM. PLoS Genet. 2018 Sep 6;14(9):e1007589. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Prospective molecular profiling of canine cancers provides a clinically relevant comparative model for evaluating personalized medicine (PMed) trials. Paoloni M, Webb C, Mazcko C, Cherba D, Hendricks W, Lana S, Ehrhart EJ, Charles B, Fehling H, Kumar L, Vail D, Henson M, Childress M, Kitchell B, Kingsley C, Kim S, Neff M, Davis B, Khanna C, Trent J. PLoS One. 2014 Mar 17;9(3):e90028. eCollection 2014.
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