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Tyler Jacks

David H. Koch Professor; Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

Tyler has pioneered the use of gene targeting technology in the mouse to study cancer-associated genes and to construct mouse models of many human cancer types, including cancers of the lung, brain and ovary. His lab has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the effects of mutations of several common cancer-associated genes.

http://jacks-lab.mit.edu

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Part of the Power List 2015

Who are the most influential medicine makers?

That’s the question we posed to ourselves – and then to you – over two months ago, ahead of open nominations and a painstaking judging process. Here, without further ado, we celebrate the answer.

Go to The Power List 2015