Friday, March 1, 2019

CanBio Bagel Talk

9:15 AM to 10:15 AM

Taubman Library, Room 2901

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Daysha Ferrer Torres, PhD, Internal Medicine

Speaking on: Constitutively Higher Level of GSTT2 in Esophageal Tissue from African Americans Protects Cells Against DNA Damage & Primary Human Tissue Models of the Esophagus to Study Racial Disparities in Esophageal Disease.

Daysha Ferrer Torres

Daysha Ferrer Torres, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
MICHR

Daysha Ferrer-Torres earned her PhD at the University of Michigan in 2017. Her previous research focused on molecular characterization of esophageal adenocarcinomas and racial disparities. Her current work will be developing models to study tissue injury and develop preventive strategies for esophageal cancer. Her postdoc fellowship is in the Department of Internal Medicine through the School of Medicine. 

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