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Silvana Konermann
Swiss-American bioengineer and neuroscientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silvana Konermann (born May 18, 1988) is a Swiss-American bioengineer and neuroscientist whose research focuses on CRISPR, genome engineering, transcription and epigenetics, and Alzheimer's disease. She is an assistant professor of biochemistry at Stanford University and co-founder and executive director of Arc Institute.
Konermann's research laboratory aims to understand the molecular pathways that drive the development of Alzheimer’s disease using next-generation functional genomics, with the long-term goal of developing rationally targeted therapeutics for neurodegenerative disorders.[1]
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Konermann attended Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen in Saxony, Germany.[2] The minor planet 21546 Konermann was named in honor of her 2006 second-place finish at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.[3] She received her Bachelor's degree in neurobiology from ETH Zurich in 2009.[4]
In 2010, Konermann entered the Brain and Cognitive Sciences PhD program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joined Feng Zhang's lab at the Broad Institute and McGovern Institute for Brain Research as one of Zhang's first graduate students. During her PhD, Konermann contributed to the development of pioneering genetic perturbation technologies, including one of the first systems for genome-scale CRISPR activation.[5] She completed her PhD in neuroscience in 2016, receiving the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for "outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences."[6]
As a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute, Konermann was part of the team that discovered Cas13d, a new subclass of compact RNA-targeting CRISPR effectors.[7] She was named an HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow in 2017 and a CZ Biohub investigator in 2019. In October 2019, Konermann joined Stanford as an assistant professor of biochemistry.[8]
Along with UC Berkeley professor Patrick Hsu and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Konermann is a co-founder of nonprofit research organization Arc Institute, where she currently serves as executive director and maintains her research laboratory as a core investigator.[9][10]
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In June 2022, Konermann married Irish tech billionaire Patrick Collison, the co-founder and CEO of Stripe.[9] Konermann met Collison at the 2005 European Union Contest for Young Scientists.[9][11][12]
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