Melissa Franco, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (co-mentored by Ryan Collins, PhD)
Dr. Melissa Franco is a postdoctoral researcher in the Gillani and Collins labs. Originally from Providence, RI, she studied biology at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She completed her PhD at the same university with a focus on understanding the inheritance dynamics of pathogenic mutations in the mitochondrial genome. At Dana-Farber, Melissa is interested in better understanding the genetic basis of cancer, particularly in the germline.