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SELECTBIO Conferences Genomic Biomarkers

Yair Benita's Biography



Yair Benita, Senior Computational Biologist, Merck Research Laboratories

Yair has a B.Sc. in pharmacology and a PhD in Bioinformatics. He is an expert in high-throughput data analysis ranging from RNA screens to microarrays, drug response data and next generation sequencing. At Merck, Yair supports the oncology franchise and applies his expertise to identify synergistic drug combinations and define biomarkers of drug response.

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Identifying Biomarkers of Synergy for Combination Therapy in Cancer

Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 09:30

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Cancer is a complex disease requiring combination therapy. I will discuss strategies for identifying synergistic drug combinations and associated genomic biomarkers. I will focus on the complexity of defining combination therapy biomarkers and the key differences compared to defining biomarkers for single agent therapy.


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