Congratulations to Soobeom Lee, Research Scientist at the New York Genome Center, who received the MacMillan Fellowship by the MacMillan Center for the Study of the Non-coding Cancer Genome. The two-year fellowship supports research at the intersection of cancer biology and non-coding genomics.
The award will fund Dr. Lee’s project– developing a spatial whole-genome technology to decode the genomic evolution of metastatic colorectal cancer.
Soobeom Lee is a Research Scientist in the Vicković Laboratory at the New York Genome Center, which develops and applies cutting-edge spatial genomics technologies to better understand how cells function within their native tissue environments. Their research focuses on the human gut, cancer progression, aging, and neural computation, combining spatial transcriptomics, single-cell sequencing, machine learning, and advanced imaging to study how the spatial organization of cells and molecules influences health and disease.
Dr. Lee’s research centers on developing genomic technologies that resolve clonal evolution and genotype-to-phenotype relationships directly from patient specimens. He developed a single-cell multimodal method for profiling genotype-specific chromatin accessibility and three-dimensional genome structure, and he is now building spatial genomic technologies for spatially resolved whole-genome and whole-exome profiling to study metastatic evolution in human colorectal cancer.
