Davy Deng is interested in understanding cancer’s evolutionary strategies towards chemoresistance as well as the constraints in its evolutionary paths. In the Beroukhim lab, he studied the genomic alterations of high grade gliomas and is developing computational pipeline to detect cell-free DNA from glioblastomas in the blood for rapid diagnosis and continuous disease monitoring. Davy holds bachelor’s degrees from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree from Harvard. He is now a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT HST MEMP program.

Fun fact: He used to be a fish doctor back when he lived in western China and once removed a small tumor from a shark.

Favorite quote: “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” – Theodosius Dobzhansky