One of the aspects of my job that I enjoy the most is being able to support the stellar researchers working here at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. My own personal goal is that my work analyzing data from the human gut microbiome will one day be used to improve the tools we have for preventing and treating cancer. As part of that effort, I have been collaborating with a brilliant physician-scientist, Dr. Neel Dey, who combines his clinical practice with a biomedical research program to identify the ways in with the microbiome influences colorectal cancer.
Our work together was recently featured in an article by Sabin Russell from the Fred Hutch press office, which I thought did a great job of capturing our recent advances.
Dispatches from the microbial frontier of cancer research