Agilent Technologies Presents Early Career Professor Award to Dr. Roeland Verhaak

Jackson Laboratory Professor Recognized for Work in Big Data in Life Sciences

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has named Roeland G.W. Verhaak, Ph.D., as the winner of the company’s prestigious Early Career Professor Award.

Dr. Verhaak has been selected for his contributions to the implementation of transcriptomics, genomics, and big-data analysis to the classification and diagnosis of various cancer types, including acute myeloid leukemia and glioblastoma. His approach and results spearheaded the implementation of the molecular analysis of cancer.

Dr. Verhaak recently joined The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) as professor and associate director of computational biology.

“Dr. Verhaak is recognized internationally for the development and implementation of workflows for the analysis of big-data from transcriptomics to next generation sequencing approaches. His data-driven, unbiased analyses of cancer genomics and profound understanding of cancer biology ar

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