Dr Richard Saffery- Molecular and cellular biology, epigenetics, childhood cancer
Dr Richard Saffery of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, studies childhood cancer with IARC as part of the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C). He describes his work with IARC and the results of an investigation into whether the epigenetic profile of children who develop cancer is different at birth.
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