Dr. Steven Offer joined UI Pathology on January 8, 2024 as an Associate Professor. Dr. Offer received his Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology & Genetics from the University of Minnesota in 2009. He then moved to Mayo Clinic to perform a post-doctoral fellowship in the area of pharmacogenomics where he became expert in incorporating computational biology in his work. Steven remained at Mayo Clinic as a Research Associate and was subsequently hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He was promoted to Associate Consultant in 2020. Dr. Offer's research focuses on cancer initiation and progression and utilizes a diverse array of cutting-edge biochemical, molecular, cellular, genetic, pharmacological and clinical methods to identify and characterize the changes that occur within cells to drive tumorigenesis and cancer metastasis.