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Jaclyn Biegel

Jan 29, 2016

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has appointed Jaclyn Biegel as the director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at CHLA. She is a professor of pathology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and also serves as chief of CHLA's new division of genomic medicine in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine. Previously, Biegel has served as director of the Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and as a professor of pediatrics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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