Nicholas Navin

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Name Nicholas Navin

Interview with professor nicholas navin at cancer crosslinks 2015

Nicholas Navin is an American biologist, and an associate professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Nicholas Navin is known as 'the father of single cell sequencing' for having pioneered the development of the first single cell sequencing methods for DNA

Nicholas Navin Nicholas Navin MD Anderson Cancer Center

Navin holds a dual appointment in the University's Department of Genetics and Department of Bioinformatics, and serves as a scientific advisor to the biotechnology company ZS Genetics. Navin's work focuses on single cell sequencing, oncogenomics, bioinformatics and the genome evolution in cancer. Navin worked under the tutelage of Michael Wigler at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he helped to develop the first single-cell DNA sequencing method: single nucleus sequencing. This discovery effectively established the field of single-cell genomics.