Roles
- Associate Professor of Human Genetics
- Basic Science Leader Breast SDG
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Biography
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. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
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Honors & Awards
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Research Interests
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. -
Publications
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Articles & News
How Scientists at Sylvester are Learning to Outrun Cancer Resistance
NIH Awards Aim To Unwrap the Unexpected Molecular Links Between Breast Cancer and Childhood Brain Disorders
How a Single Gene Mutation Drives Cognitive Impairment, Anxiety and Social Deficits
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