Michael Christman
Coriell Institute for Medical Research, USA
Biography
Michael Christman, is president and chief executive officer of the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. With an entrepreneurial spirit, Mike is guiding Coriell on new ventures in emerging science that will both further the Institute's research and add to the breadth of services it provides to scientists worldwide. Mike is an expert in genetics and genomics, with a focus on the integration of genome information into the delivery of clinical care. Prior to joining Coriell, he served as professor and founding chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomics for Boston University School of Medicine. There he led an international team of scientists in one of the first genome-wide association studies using the Framingham Heart Study cohort, published in Science magazine. Mike received his bachelor's degree in chemistry with honours from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.