Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute. She is primarily responsible for leading Broad's Mammalian Genome Initiative and the sequencing and analysis of various mammals, including mouse, dog, chimp, horse and opossum.

Kerstin also leads the dog disease-mapping group, focusing on identifying disease genes for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Her group has developed a SNP chip that has been used to identify several canine disease genes.

Kerstin is a guest professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University, where her research emphasizes dog disease gene mapping. An author on over 50 papers, Kerstin has received several scholarships and awards from the Svenska Institutet Scholarship for Research Abroad and the Swedish Medical Research Council.

Kerstin received her Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, in 1998 studying trinucleotide repeat disorders. While a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, now part of the Broad Institute, Kerstin worked on several projects, including mouse SNP discovery, the development of genotyping technologies, and association studies in human disease.