Peter Ly PhD

Peter Ly received his B.A. from Baylor University and Ph.D. from UT Southwestern Medical Center. During graduate training, he studied how numerical chromosomal alterations can trigger malignant transformation. He pursued postdoctoral training at UC San Diego with Don Cleveland where he focused on reconstructing complex structural genomic rearrangements in human somatic cells. He was named a Hope Funds for Cancer Research Fellow and was the recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award from the National Cancer Institute.

In 2019, Dr. Ly joined the faculty of UT Southwestern Medical Center as an Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research. The Ly Laboratory studies the mechanistic origins of genomic instability and chromosomal alterations during cancer development. His team is currently interrogating the factors that shape the chaotic mutational landscape of cancer genomes, including the contributions from 1) cell cycle regulation defects, 2) chromosome segregation errors during cell division, and 3) inaccurate DNA damage repair pathways.