Meet the author: Hector L. Franco

Hector Franco is a group leader at the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), having re-located from the University of North Carolina in 2023. His laboratory focuses on gene regulation, non-coding RNA, and the tumor microenvironment. In this issue of Cell Genomics, his team presents the resource "Defining the regulatory logic of breast cancer using single-cell epigenetic and transcriptome profiling," which highlights non-coding mechanisms of gene regulation in breast cancer.