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April 1, 2006
Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '97-'00 and Damon Runyon Scholar '06-'08) was featured on the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center website for his work toward understanding the role of Activation Induced cytidine Deaminase in cancer. The AID gene, which has important implications that involve both immunodeficiency and tumors in the blood, has been implicated in several leukemias and lymphomas.