Galen received his BS in bioengineering from the California Institute of Technology. In the past, he worked on projects in synthetic biology and in image analysis of chromatin rearrangement in D. melanogaster development. While in the Beroukhim lab he studied pan-cancer patterns of DNA damage and immune response, and worked on biomarker prediction for novel therapeutic compounds.  As of August 2018, he is a medical student at the University of Texas, Southwestern.

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