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Joseph Contessa, MD, PhD

Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics Program Clinical Investigations and Precision Therapeutics Program

Academic Appointment

Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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High throughput screening technologies for target and drug discovery
Tumor cell resistance to DNA damaging therapies and Radiation
Cell cycle, DNA repair, and RTK signaling

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jc3921@cinj.rutgers.edu

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