City of Hope National Medical Center
Duarte, CA
Rose was born in Beijing, China and moved to the US when she was 9. After graduating summa cum laudefrom Duke University with a BS in chemistry in 2010, she completed her MD/PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Rose is a PGY5 radiation oncology resident at UCSF. She is passionate about GU malignancies, patient advocacy and palliative care for patients with advanced and metastatic cancer, particularly those with limited access to care. She is a Holman Research Pathway fellow in the lab of Allan Balmain, where her work focuses. on cancer genome mutation patterns from non-canonical etiologies such as obesity, radiation and inflammation. Her long-term research interest is in investigating the mechanism through which environmental exposures, such as from radiation and inflammation, impact genome stability and progression of prostate cancer.
Rose’s research work has resulted in first/co-first author publications in the Nature Medicine, Nature Communication, Nature Genetics and Science Signaling as well as 60+ coauthored manuscripts in such journals as Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, and the Lancet and multiple patents. She has won awards from and given talks at the ASCO, ASTRO, SABCS and the World Lung Cancer Symposium, among others. Rose is the recipient of a number of awards/grants including the NIH pre&post-doctoral fellowships, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, and the UCSF Mount Zion Health Fund for patient-care improvement.
In her free time, Rose enjoys writing poetry, traveling the world, playing the piano, and horseback-riding.
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SS 19 - Bio 3: Genomics and Biomarkers
Monday, September 30, 2024
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM ET