Aaron Gitler

Biography

Aaron Gitler is  the Stanford Medicine Basic Science Professor in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. He receivedhis B.S. degree from PennState University and didhisPhDstudies on cardiovascular development in the laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Epstein at the University of Pennsylvania. Then he performed  his  postdoctoral  training with Dr. Susan Lindquistat the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT. In 2007, he established his laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and moved to Stanford in 2012. His  laboratory has been using a combination of yeast and human genetics approaches to investigate pathogenic mechanisms of ALS. 

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