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PLON, SHARON
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Dr. Sharon Plon is a board-certified medical geneticist and a longstanding cancer genetics researcher identifying new cancer susceptibility genes and stuyding the implementation of genomic testing in medicine. Dr. Plon holds the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Professorship at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Plon served as PI with Donald (Will) Parsons and Amy McGuire on the NHGRI/NCI- U01 Texas KidsCanSeq multi-institutional trial that studied the incorporation of CLIA clinical genome-scale exome sequencing into the care of childhood cancer patients in the diverse patient populations in Texas. Since 2013, Dr. Plon has served as one of the Principal Investigators of the Clinical Genome (ClinGen) Resource and co-chairs the ClinGen hereditary cancer effort. She also currently co-chairs the germline reporting effort of the national NCI/COG Pediatric MATCH Precision Oncology trial. She is also working closely with Dr. Philip Lupo on a population-based study to understand the association between birth defects and cancer risk in children. Dr. Plon recently served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics and was a member of the Human Genome Research Advisory Council of the National Human Genome Research Institute from 2017-2020. She is the Assistant Dean of Dual Degree Programs and Pathways in the School of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
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