Overcoming bioinformatic obstacles in high-throughput tumour-only sequencing for cancer precision medicine


Grant Data
Project Title
Overcoming bioinformatic obstacles in high-throughput tumour-only sequencing for cancer precision medicine
Principal Investigator
Professor Shih, Jen Hao David   (Principal Investigator (PI))
Co-Investigator(s)
Dr Ma Edmond Shiu Kwan   (Co-Investigator)
Professor El Helali Aya   (Co-Investigator)
Duration
36
Start Date
2024-09-01
Amount
1496712
Conference Title
Overcoming bioinformatic obstacles in high-throughput tumour-only sequencing for cancer precision medicine
Keywords
bioinformatics, molecular tumour board, sequence-directed, high-throughput DNA, sequence artifacts
Discipline
Others - Medicine, Dentistry and Health
HKU Project Code
11222156
Grant Type
Health and Medical Research Fund 2022
Funding Year
2022
Status
On-going
Objectives
To develop clinically focused bioinformatic pipelines for generating informative reports for tumour sequencing in Hong Kong, and to evaluate its effectiveness in identifying actionable genetic alterations for molecular tumour boards.