Fides Lay

Fides Lay received her BS from UCLA where she studied Biochemistry and English, combining her love for science and literature. She started her PhD work with the intention of studying the immune response of human cancer, but was soon drawn in by the growing field of epigenetics. She received her PhD from University of Southern California in 2014 after completing a dissertation on the mechanism of cancer epigenetics, focusing on using genomic and epigenomic data analyses to understand cancer pathways and identify therapeutic targets, with the hope of advancing personalized medicine.