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Dr. Richard Frock

Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology, Radiation and Cancer Biology
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Dr. Richard Frock is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University.  He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington studying A-type nuclear laminopathies in striated muscle and lymphocyte development.  Richard then joined the laboratory of Dr. Frederick Alt at Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow where he made seminal contributions to the development and improvement of a chromosomal translocation sequencing technology, HTGTS, which can locate DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) genome-wide. 

Dr. Frock’s most notable work demonstrated the remarkable sensitivity of HTGTS to detect not only off-target activities of TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 nucleases but also an associated low-level, wide-spread DSB activity reminiscent of ionizing radiation.