Floris Barthel, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr.  Barthel is an assistant professor in the Bioinnovation and Genome Sciences Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). In addition to his primary appointment at TGen, he holds adjunct appointments at City of Hope (CoH), The University of Arizona (UA) and Arizona State University (ASU). He leads a basic and translational research program utilizing state-of-the-art genomic approaches to study the development and evolution of glial brain tumors (gliomas). He is a full program member of CoH’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and is affiliated with the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Cancer (MCBC) program. His lab has a particular interest in the roles of aneuploidy and telomere dysfunction in glioma development, but is generally interested in all aspects of genome evolution, including, but not limited to, longitudinal studies using liquid biopsies. The lab has received both public and private philanthropic funding for translational and basic science research projects in these fields.