Christopher Ian Amos is an American genetic epidemiologist and the director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at
Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the associate director for quantitative science at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
He is known for his research on the genetic basis of certain types of human
cancer.
Biography
Amos was educated at
Reed College, where he earned his
undergraduate degree in
mathematics
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in 1980, and at the
Louisiana State University Medical Center
The Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO) was the name of two teaching hospitals in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Both hospitals were part of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orlean ...
, where he received his
M.S.
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and
Ph.D. degrees in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He joined the Department of
Epidemiology at the
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1992, where he founded the Section of Computational and Genetic Epidemiology. In 2012, he was named the inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at the
Geisel School of Medicine at
Dartmouth College. He became director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine on November 1, 2017, after being offered a $6 million "established investigator" grant by the
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
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.
References
External links
Faculty page*
Living people
American epidemiologists
Genetic epidemiologists
Baylor College of Medicine faculty
Cancer researchers
Reed College alumni
Louisiana State University alumni
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center faculty
Geisel School of Medicine faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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