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Single-cell RNA sequencing: one step closer to the clinic

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  1. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Romanos Sklavenitis-Pistofidis & Irene Ghobrial

  2. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Romanos Sklavenitis-Pistofidis, Gad Getz & Irene Ghobrial

  3. Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Gad Getz

  4. Center for Prevention of Progression of Blood Cancers, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Irene Ghobrial

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I.G. has a consulting and advisory role with Celgene, Takeda, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genentech, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Amgen, and has received research funding/honoraria from Celgene, Takeda, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Amgen. G.G. receives research funds from IBM and Pharmacyclics; is an inventor on patent applications related to MuTect, ABSOLUTE, MutSig, MSMuTect, MSMutSig, MSIdetect, POLYSOLVER and TensorQTL; and is a founder and consultant of and holds privately held equity in Scorpion Therapeutics.

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Sklavenitis-Pistofidis, R., Getz, G. & Ghobrial, I. Single-cell RNA sequencing: one step closer to the clinic. Nat Med 27, 375–376 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01276-y

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