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Stephen J. Salipante is a Professor and Co-Director of the Molecular Diagnosis Microbiology Section at UW Medicine. He directs the NGS Analytics Laboratory and focuses on the development and application of massively parallel (next-generation) DNA sequencing technologies in areas relevant to human health. His research includes the investigation and development of clinical tests and bioinformatics tools for data analysis. Salipante's current work involves large-scale sequencing of clinical bacterial isolates, exploring aspects of bacterial infectious diseases and characterizing genes related to virulence and antibiotic resistance. He also focuses on the detection of low-prevalence cancer mutations to enable the identification of actionable mutations in cancer therapy. His team develops novel next-generation sequencing technologies as diagnostic tools, contributing to both translational research and clinical applications.
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