Dr Lluis Morey

University of Miami, USA

Dr. Morey is a tenured associate professor at the Human Genetics Department at University of Miami (UM) and member of the Cancer Epigenetics Program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received his degree in Biology from Universidad de Barcelona in 2003. He completed his PhD studies in the laboratory of Dr. Luciano Di Croce, where he studied the role of the chromatin-remodeling complexes in leukemia. He then joined Dr. Kristian Helin’s laboratory where he studied the role of non-coding RNAs in ESCs, and in 2010 he joined that Dr. Luciano Di Croce as staff scientist where he investigated the role of Polycomb complexes in ESCs. In 2016, he started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at UM. Dr. Morey has been the recipient of multiple grants from the American Association for Cancer Research, American Cancer Society, V Foundation, METAvivor and NIH-NIGMS and NIH-NCI among others. The lab’s focus is mainly on how chromatin modifying enzymes regulate oncogenic programs and how perturbations of epigenetic pathways can be exploited for therapeutic interventions.