A recent paper published in Nature Communications titled “Contributing factors to the oxidation-induced mutational landscape in human cells” co-authored by cellular, molecular, and biomedical sciences Ph.D. candidate Cameron Cordero and his advisor, Steven Roberts, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, and colleagues has been included on the journal’s Editors’ Highlights page in the cancer category. Cordero’s primary research interest is computational analysis of DNA damage and repair in cancer.

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Research like this has contributed to the University of Vermont’s designation by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1 institution, placing it in the top tier of research universities in the U.S.