A Novel Detection Method of DNA Methylation in Circulating Free DNA of Pancreatic Cancer

Keiko Shinjo, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Keiko Shinjo, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in 2012 and subsequently conducted her research as a faculty member of Aichi Cancer Research Institute. She became the assistant professor of the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 2014. From 2017, she is a faculty member of Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. Her research has been focused on the dynamic regulation of gene expression by epigenetic mechanisms in human cancers. She applied ddPCR technique to detect aberrant DNA methylation in circulating free DNA for diagnose cancer.