Cancer Genomics and Epigenetics Core Group

Group Leader

Lőrinc Sándor Pongor, PhD

Group Leader

EDUCATION

2013-2018 PhD, Oncology Program, School of Pathology Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Supervisor: Dr. Balázs Győrffy MD PhD DSc

2007-2013 BSc and MSc. Biochemical engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Supervisor: Dr. István Peták, MD, PhD

2010-2011 “Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology” and “Advanced Bioinformatics: Computational Systems Biology” Trieste-Italy (1 week theoretical and practical courses)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022- Cancer genomics and epigenetics group leader, HCEMM, Szeged, Hungary

2018-2022 Postdoctoral fellow (CRTA), Developmental Therapeutics Branch, National Cancer Institute

(NCI), NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

2017 Visiting research fellow: “Identifying intron retention events in RNA-seq data”, NCBI NIH

2011-2018 Bioinformatics Teaching assistant (Faculty of IT) at Pazmany Peter Catholic University

2009-2013 Undergrad research: KPS Medical Biotechnology NGS sequence analysis

LANGUAGES

Hungarian, English, Italian.

PROGRAMMING

Python, R, perl, C

OTHER INTERESTS

New National Excellence Program award (2017)

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellowship (2017)

Student research conference awards at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and

Semmelweis Medical University

Fellowship granted by the Hungarian Republic (2013)

NGS data analysis, tumor exome- and genome sequencing, analysis of tumor heterogeneity and survival, microbiome sequencing.

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