Dr. Andrea Califano sits down with BioTechniques at AACR. Video: Courtesy of BioTechniques.

At the 2019 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Dr. Andrea Califano sat down with BioTechniques News for an overview on the field of systems biology and its impact in cancer research and in precision medicine. Dr. Califano is a pioneering researcher in the fast-growing field of systems biology whose expertise is in developing innovative, systematic approaches to identify the molecular factors that lead to cancer progression and to the emergence of drug resistance at the single-cell level. A physicist by training, Dr. Califano is the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, director of the Columbia Genome Center and a program leader at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The video interview is part of the series, Behind the Technqiue by BioTechniques News.