Dr. DeGregori received his doctorate in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pursued postdoctoral training at Duke University. He is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. He holds the Courtenay and Lucy Patten Davis endowed chair in lung cancer research. His lab seeks to understand how carcinogenic conditions promote cancer evolution and to discover pathway dependencies in cancers that can be exploited therapeutically.