Ludwig’s Luis Diaz to Deliver Plenary at 2016 AACR Annual Meeting on Liquid Biopsies for the Early Detection of Cancer
Ludwig Cancer ResearchLudwig Cancer Research scientist Luis Diaz will be giving a plenary lecture today at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in New Orleans. His talk, titled “Liquid biopsies and the early diagnosis of cancer,” will survey the scientific history and current state of efforts to develop minimally invasive diagnostic tests for the early detection of cancer. An oncologist who has long been at the forefront of this field, Diaz will focus on the technologies and strategies employed to capture and profile DNA shed by tumors.