Catherine Brownstein | Professional History
Dr. Brownstein is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate in the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children's Hospital. As the Scientific Director for the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research Gene Discovery Core, Dr. Brownstein has been instrumental in the elucidation of several new disease genes for conditions such as intellectual disability, nemaline myopathy, very early onset psychosis, SIDS, and hypophosphatemic rickets. Her current work focuses on advancing the fields of genome sequencing and analysis, with an emphasis on identifying complex structural variation.
Dr. Brownstein is also the assistant director of the Molecular Genetics Core Facility, and is dedicated to assisting investigators in achieving their research goals.