Kristen Brennand

Education

University of Calgary, 2002, BSc, Cell Molecular Biology; Harvard University, 2008, PhD, Biological Sciences

Professional Area

Combines expertise in genomics, CRISPR-engineering, neuroscience, and human-induced pluripotent stem cells.

Citation

Established the first human cell models of brain disease, demonstrating that critical aspects of disease etiology can be recapitulated in the laboratory dish.  Her research is helping to decode highly complex genetic insights into medically actionable information, towards improving diagnostics, predicting clinical trajectories, and identifying points of therapeutic intervention.