Valerie Lindgren, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Cytogenetics
phone:(312) 355-3619
fax:(312) 413-0156
email:lindgren@uic.edu
Areas of Interest
Clinical Focus
Clinical laboratory performing cytogenetic and FISH analyses
Research Focus
Recurring chromosome abnormalities in leukemia and renal cell tumors
What I Do
I direct the UIC Cytogenetics Laboratory, which performs routine cytogenetic, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and comparative genomic hybridization/SNP analysis to detect congenital genomic abnormalities as well as cancer abnormalities. My research interests flow from what’s happening in the clinical lab.
Education
BA, Chemistry, 1973: University of Chicago
PhD, Genetics, 1982: University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Training
1983-1985: Advisor Uta Francke, Yale University
1985-1987: Advisor Peter Howley, NCI, NIH
Board Certification
American Board of Medical Genetics, Clinical Cytogenetics, 1987
Selected Recent Publications
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Keywords
Clinical cytogenetics, cancer cytogenetics, array comparative genomic hybridization analysis