#  Teng Gao 

Advisors: Peter Kharchenko and Peter Park

 

 

 



   ![Teng Gao](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/bigphd/files/teng_gao.jpg?itok=vW0C8ae1) 

 



 





 

 **What research experience did you have before grad school?**

   
*I worked as a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, where I studied clonal hematopoiesis (clonal mutations in the blood) in 32,000 cancer patients profiled by prospective clinical sequencing.*

 **What is your research area and why is it exciting?**

 *I am currently studying the age-related accumulation of DNA damages across human tissues, a process that represents the common link between aging and cancer, as well as a variety of other human diseases.*

 **Why did you choose BIG?**

 *The caliber of science as well as life in the city!*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni Graduation Year
    
     [2024](/alumni-graduation-year/2024)
- ## People
    
     [Alumni](/people/alumni)
- ## Year Entered BIG Program
    
     [2020](/year-entered-program/2020)