Emily Iannetta, PhD

Dr. Emily Iannetta is originally from North Carolina where she attended UNC Chapel Hill for her undergraduate degree. After obtaining her BS in Biology, she went on to pursue a PhD in Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech in the Gibson lab. Her thesis work was focused on functionally characterizing rare and common variants in the human genome through a combination of CRISPR/Cas9 and scRNAseq. As a postdoctoral research fellow in the Gillani lab at Dana-Farber, she aims to analyze genetic data to detect and identify risk variants for pediatric cancer, assisting in efforts to improve personalized health approaches for patients