A 12-year observational study which aimed to sequence the genome, exome, and RNA in tumors from patients with multiple myeloma was able to define distinct subtypes of the disease, according to an international team of scientists led by researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute, part of City of Hope.
Zhan, seated, with Steven Webber (left), dean of the College of Medicine and executive vice chancellor at UAMS, and UAMS chancellor Cam Patterson (right).The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine invested Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, a tenured professor of medicine and the research director of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center, in the Bart Barlogie Chair for Myeloma Research during a March 13 ceremony.
