Catherine Cormier, PhD
Scientific Liaison
The Biodesign Institute, Personalized Diagnostics
Cathy Cormier is the scientific liaison for the Protein Structure Initiative Material Repository (PSI-MR) and the DNASU plasmid repository. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University studying biochemistry and molecular biology. She attended graduate school at the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Her thesis research in Dr. Yuri Lazebnik's laboratory, focused on using RNAi technology to identify and characterize a rearranged apoptotic pathway in chemotherapy treated prostate cancer cells. After graduating, she joined Dr. Patrick Paddison's laboratory at CSHL, where her research focused on optimizing and using RNAi libraries to screen for genes that are required for differentiation in mouse embryonic stem cells. In 2007, she joined the Harvard Institute of Proteomics (HIP) at Harvard Medical School as the scientific liaison of the PlasmID repository and PSI Material Repository. She recently moved with Dr. LaBaer's group to the CDP where she will continue as the scientific liaison for the repository.
Each month, innovative research from the Biodesign Institute appears in the world’s premier scientific journals. Many such studies have graced the covers of these journals, showcasing Biodesign research ranging from water remediation to nanometer-scale structures built from DNA.
Alternate Lifestyles: Searching for Life in the Shadow Biosphere
Tiny Legos That Build Themselves: The Magic of DNA Nanostructures
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