Eric Sun

Eric is a MD-PhD student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD and Computational Biology & Medicine PhD Program. He is interested in epigenetics, chromatin architecture, oncogene amplification, and plasticity. Eric is originally from Virginia and graduated from Yale College with a degree in Biochemistry and Statistics. At Yale, he worked in Dr. Andrew Xiao’s lab in the Department of Genetics, elucidating mechanisms of targeted therapy resistance in EGFR-mutant LUAD. Additionally, Eric has studied DNA damage and replication with Dr. Robin Sebastian at the NCI. Eric is now focusing on understanding how the powerful oncogene MYC is regulated.