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Dr. Jeffrey Trent
President and Scientific Director of TGen

The most advanced human genetic mapping project in history is underway, and Dr. Jeffrey Trent has been directing it from the beginning. Today his team at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is analyzing genetic code at their offices in downtown Phoenix to find cures for cancer and other common illnesses.

Dr. Trent, TGen’s president and scientific director, invited The Times in for a look at his high-rise downtown corner office. Trent has founded laboratories, directed a cancer center and authored more than 300 scientific articles, but won’t tell you about his awards or accomplishments. Trent’s driving passion is to find better treatments for cancer and debilitating diseases. He is ultimately driven to improve the human condition
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1. A hologram of the Double Helix from Dr. Trent’s tenure at the National Institutes of Health
2. Hand Sanitizer
3. Pens and scissors
4. Business cards
5. Apple Powerbook
6. Memorial cards from patients, reinforcing TGen’s mission of earlier diagnoses and smarter treatments
7. Scientific reports from TGen researchers
8. Photo with family
9. Photo with wife of 31 years, Dee
10. View looking east over downtown Phoenix
11. View looking north over downtown Phoenix
12. Recognition from a lecture Trent gave at the Fox Chase C ancer Center in Philadelphia
13. “On Demand Hope” An advertisement done in collaboration with ASU and IBM that speaks to TGen’s mission.
14. Photo from the National Institutes of Health, where Trent served as a director
15. These white binders contain reprints of the more than 300 scientific manuscripts Dr. Trent and his colleagues have published
16. Photo with John McCain
17. Dr. Trent’s wife of 31 years, Dee
18. Medals for full 26.2 mile marathons Trent has completed
19. Kleenex
20. Well-worn Bible
21. Pharmacology and biology books
22. Award from Cox
23. Family photos
24. Football tickets
25. A printout containing a section of Chromosome 1, where Dr. Trent and colleagues are searching for a cure for skin cancer
26. A bottle of wine presented to Trent by his colleagues at the University of Michigan. The wine was received when Trent left to become the founding director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health
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