Mev Dominguez-Valentin, PhD is a Project Group Leader at the Department of Tumor Biology of the Institute for Cancer Research from Oslo University Hospital (Norway). She is the Principal Investigator of the largest prospective Lynch Syndrome database (PLSD) aiming to facilitate personalized precision medicine for Lynch syndrome. Her main research areas include Lynch syndrome and the large prospective observational studies that have recently increased understanding of the effectiveness of colonoscopy surveillance and the heterogeneity of cancer risk between genotypes. She is also interested in implementing the advances in diagnosis of hereditary cancer susceptibility and applying these insights to clinical practice in Latin America.
In her lecture this year, Dr. Dominguez-Valentin will give an update on the epidemiology research of Lynch syndrome based on the PLSD data.