Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is a scientist in comparative genomics, specializing in mammalian genetics. She is the Scientific Director of vertebrate genomics at the Broad Institute and a professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University. In 2010 she co-founded Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) together with Mathias Uhlén and acted as Co-Director until 2015. As the leader of the Broad Institute's Mammalian Genome Initiative she has led the effort to sequence and analyze the genomes of various mammals, including mouse, dog, chimpanzee, horse, rabbit and opossum. She has researched extensively on the genetics of dogs, identifying genes and genetic variants important in disease susceptibility, morphology and behavior.

In 2015, she started the Zoonomia Project, named after the medical work (1794–96) by Erasmus Darwin.

Lindblad-Toh is elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Provided by Wikipedia