{"id":11921,"date":"2022-08-25T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=11921"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:40:00","slug":"department-of-genetics-welcomes-new-faculty-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/department-of-genetics-welcomes-new-faculty-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Genetics Welcomes New Faculty Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11922 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2022\/08\/McDougal_Garcia-Recio.jpg\" alt=\"Dara McDougal and Susana Garcia-Recio\" width=\"286\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2022\/08\/McDougal_Garcia-Recio.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2022\/08\/McDougal_Garcia-Recio-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2022\/08\/McDougal_Garcia-Recio-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2022\/08\/McDougal_Garcia-Recio-600x504.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/>The Department of Genetics is pleased to welcome Dara McDougal, MS as Assistant Professor\/Genetic Counselor and Susana Garcia-Recio, PhD as Assistant Professor.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. McDougal earned her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences from North Carolina Central University and her Master\u2019s degree in Genetic Counseling from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\u00a0 Dara\u2019s clinical focus includes adult cancer genetics and increasing the genetic services in underserved communities. Her previous research includes, investigating the role of microRNAs in African American Diabetic women, Toll-Like Receptor genetic variants and their role in prostate cancer susceptibility among men of African Descent, and the challenges associated with the development of community-based research.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Garcia-Recio received her Ph.D. in the School of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, Spain. In 2015, she joined Dr. Charles Perou\u2019s laboratory at the University of North Carolina at the Department of Genetics and was awarded a Susan G. Komen Postdoctoral Fellow to pursue the identification of genetic drivers in non-basal breast cancer subtypes. During her postdoc, Dr. Garcia-Recio identified a potential genetic driver of metastatic disease, the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR4) gene. She demonstrated that the survival activity and proliferation derived from FGFR4 activation induced the departure from luminal-like programming toward HER2E-like subtype, which predicted a worse clinical outcome for breast cancer patients. 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