Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
Steven Cole is a Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Medicine in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His research utilizes molecular genetics and computational bioinformatics to analyze the pathways by which social and environmental factors influence the activity of the human genome, as well as viral and cancer genomes. He has been a pioneer in applying functional genomics strategies to understand social determinants of health in the context of cancer biology, and discovered the "Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity" that mediates social disparities in health via sympathetic nervous system regulation of tumor cell biology and macrophage biology in the tumor microenvironment. He serves as Director of the UCLA Social Genomics Core Laboratory, and is a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Norman Cousins Center, the UCLA AIDS Institute, the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Friday, November 10, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM CST
