15th World Congress on Cancer Therapy, Biomarkers & Clinical Research
Philadelphia, USA

David Chafin
Roche Tissue Diagnostics (RTD), USA
Biography
David received a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Purdue University and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa. David was both a Cancer Center and NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester. David is currently a principal scientist at Roche Tissue Diagnostics located in Tucson Arizona. David is the technical lead for pre-analytics. This project aims to provide standardization of routine tissue collection. Efforts have focused on ways to optimize tissue fixation providing high quality with exceptional turn-around time and higher medical content. David holds several patents on automated immunohistochemistry as well as novel fixation protocols.