Hector L. Franco, PhD
@TheHectorFranco
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Lead Investigator and Co-Director of Bioinformatics, UPR Comprehensive Cancer Center | Cancer Genetics | Gene Regulation | Epigenetics | Computational Biology
Joined June 2021
I had a great time sitting down with the editors at Cell Genomics for a Q&A about my journey as a scientist and the unique opportunity to do research in Puerto Rico. Grateful for the chance to share my experiences and highlight our cancer research!
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Hector Franco is a group leader at the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), having re-located from the University of North Carolina in 2023. His laboratory focuses on gene...
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Funding academic research is essential for advancing human health. Today, we published our NIH-funded project, which annotates enhancer-to-silencer switching events in breast cancer using single-cell multi-omics #scRNAseq #scATACseq #cancerresearch
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Matched chromatin accessibility and transcriptome profiles at single-cell resolution from breast tumors, normal tissues, and cell lines are used to identify regulatory elements that drive clinically...
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Thrilled to share the newest publication from the Franco Lab 🎉 We uncovered key regulatory mechanisms involving transcriptional enhancers that drive the aggressive nature of Breast Cancer. Using CRISPRi assays, RNA-seq, and Hi-C chromatin mapping!
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most therapeutically recalcitrant form of breast cancer, which is due in part to the paucity of targeted therapies. A systematic analysis of regulatory...
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RT @SciencNews: Scientists should get paid for thinking time @Nature . #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs….
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RT @CR_AACR: #OnlineFirst in the Computational Cancer Biology and Technology section—CRISPR Screening of Transcribed Super-Enhancers Identi….
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Great time hosting @BenjaminGVincen and @iskander at the University of Puerto Rico Cancer Center Scientific Congress. They gave an awesome session on Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research. They also suvived Ziplining over top of the convention center! 💪🏽🔬🇵🇷
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The Univ of Chicago is cool! Great science , awesome architecture! Fun to visit the Dept of ObGyn and talk about the Franco Lab Ovarian Cancer Research 🔬 🧫!
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Amazing to be in NYC to celebrate the life of Stuart Scott (of ESPN) and share the stage with Sage Steele and Dr. Victoria Bae-Jump to raise money for the V Foundation for Cancer Research! @TheVFoundation
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On the way to NYC to celebrate the life of Staurt Scott (ESPN) and raise funding for the V Foundation for acancer Research!
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RT @TheVFoundation: We are excited to have Dr. @TheHectorFranco and Dr. Victoria Bae-Jump join us as the cancer research experts for "Boo-Y….
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RT @naimurashid: Please spread the word! @uncbiostat @UNCpublichealth and UNC Genetics @UNC_SOM are recruiting a tenure-track assistant pro….
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RT @TheHectorFranco: Want to do awesome NCI Funded Cancer Genetics and Genomics research in the Caribbean? Come join the Franco Lab in beau….
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Want to do awesome NCI Funded Cancer Genetics and Genomics research in the Caribbean? Come join the Franco Lab in beautiful Puerto Rico! We are looking for Bioinformatics Scientists, Research Scientists, and a Lab Manager. Message me or visit our website
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I am grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and leaders at UNC and especially grateful to @mcruzcorrea for the chance to make this move. I am hiring at all levels, so if you want to live where people vacation, come join me in beautiful Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷.
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and pursue our most ambitious research goals. Reaching tenure at UNC has been the greatest achievement of my career (thus far 😉) and now I have the opportunity to take the lessons learned along the way to build something special back home. 🧵.
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After 16 yrs of hard work and personal sacrifice I have made the biggest decision of my career to take the opportunity to move my lab to the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico! UNC Chapel Hill has been a wonderful place to grow my lab (and family). 🧵
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15 years ago I was a student of the fabled Gene Expression course at Cold Spring Harbor. Today I returned as a lecturer. Full circle. Awesome science. Awesome people. Thanks to @JdowenL and @GuertinLab for the invitation!
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