ARCS Scholar, Kevin Watanabe-Smith, PhD, is a cancer biologist in Dr. Brian Druker's lab at OHSU. “Mutations are part of life. They are mistakes in a gene like typos in a text message,” said Watanabe-Smith, a postdoctoral fellow with the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. “But which mutations cause cancer? That’s the real question. And this problem is impossible to understand without a strong model system to test those mutations.” Watanabe-Smith was featured in OHSU news.
Photo courtesy of OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff
