Upcoming Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses

This page lists upcoming thesis defense presentations. You may access an archive of all those that have been posted here

	Defense Date	Department	Dissertation Director	Location
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense- Zhaoming Wang	Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 1:00pm		Dr. Stephen Chanock	NCI Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, 8717 Grovemont Circle, Gaithersburg, MD 20877	Genome Wide Association Studies Discovering Genetic Susceptibility Alleles for Human Cancers

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