Brian Van Ness, PhD

Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota

Brian Van Ness, PhD is a professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, the director of the Precision Medicine Seminar Series for the Minnesota Precision Medicine Collaborative, and a member of the Institute of Personalized Medicine in the College of Pharmacy. The research in the Van Ness lab is directed at defining genetic deregulation that contributes to lymphoid malignancies, particularly multiple myeloma. Research techniques include gene profiling (expression arrays, SNPs), transfections, flow cytometry, transgenic mice, and PCR.