Timothy Ley

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1953 –

90

Who is Timothy Ley?

Timothy J. Ley is an American hematologist and cancer biologist. He is the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Oncology in the Department of Medicine, is chief of the Section of Stem Cell Biology in the Division of Oncology and is Professor of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an associate director of The Genome Institute at Washington University and is affiliated with the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center.

Dr. Ley's research group focuses on the genetics and genomics of acute myeloid leukemia. His lab studies the development of normal and leukemic blood cells. His work is focused on identifying the mutations that are responsible for the initiation and progression of AML.

Dr. Ley led the team that sequenced the first cancer genome. He has gone on to develop projects that will use whole genome sequencing to help diagnose and treat patients with leukemia.

To better understand the role of many of the mutations discovered through whole genome sequencing of leukemias, he and his colleagues have constructed several mouse models of acute promyelocytic leukemia, which are very similar to human APL. Dr.

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Born
1953
Education
  • Washington University School of Medicine

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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