Biography:Louise Showe

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Louise C. Showe is an American biomedical researcher who was scientific director of the Genomics Facility and the Bioinformatics Facility at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.[1][2][3] Her research focused on functional genomics and how they can be used to better understand the immune system and cancer. She retired in 2024.[4]

Showe has said that being able to "globally screen gene expression patterns using genomics and proteomics appears to have injected a new level of enthusiasm for learning what is going on in complex cancers that have been particularly recalcitrant to therapy."[5] Recently, Showe's research led to the creation of a blood test that could be used to test for lung cancer using a 29-gene assay.[6] The company OncoCyte has partnered with Wistar to develop lung cancer diagnostic tests.[7]

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