Agilent Technologies Presents Early Career Professor Award to Dr. Roeland Verhaak
October 18 2016 - 11:00AM
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Jackson Laboratory Professor Recognized for Work in Big Data
in Life Sciences
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has named Roeland G.W.
Verhaak, Ph.D., as the winner of the company’s prestigious Early
Career Professor Award.
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Dr. Verhaak has been selected for his contributions to the
implementation of transcriptomics, genomics, and big-data analysis
to the classification and diagnosis of various cancer types,
including acute myeloid leukemia and glioblastoma. His approach and
results spearheaded the implementation of the molecular analysis of
cancer.
Dr. Verhaak recently joined The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) as
professor and associate director of computational biology.
“Dr. Verhaak is recognized internationally for the development
and implementation of workflows for the analysis of big-data from
transcriptomics to next generation sequencing approaches. His
data-driven, unbiased analyses of cancer genomics and profound
understanding of cancer biology are improving our ability to
identify clinically relevant subtypes of cancer,” said Jack
Wenstrand, Agilent's director of university relations and external
research. "Agilent is pleased to recognize Dr. Verhaak with this
award and to support his important research at JAX."
“We’re so pleased that Dr. Verhaak has received this prestigious
award in recognition of his outstanding work in advancing human
health,” said Charles Lee, Ph.D., FACMG, scientific director and
professor at JAX Genomic Medicine.
The annual Agilent Early Career Professor Award was established
in 2008. Through this award, Agilent seeks to recognize the
achievements of academic researchers in the early stages of their
careers and to establish strong collaborative relationships with
them early in their professional lives. This award underscores
Agilent's commitment to furthering research through the company's
products and services, financial support, and collaborative
engagement by Agilent scientists and engineers.
About Agilent Technologies
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life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, is the
premier laboratory partner for a better world. Agilent works with
customers in more than 100 countries, providing instruments,
software, services and consumables for the entire laboratory
workflow. The company generated revenues of $4.04 billion in fiscal
2015 and employs about 12,000 people worldwide. Information about
Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
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