Cláudia M.B. Carvalho, PhD, Board Member

Cláudia M.B. Carvalho, PhD, is an Assistant Investigator at PNRI since 2020. Her research focuses on discovering DNA alterations that lead to human genetic diseases, particularly those affecting children.   Her laboratory is establishing signatures of DNA variants in rare genetic diseases, investigating the mechanism of formation of such alterations and how they impact disease expression.  The long-term goal of her research is to provide working hypothesis for functional studies, biomarker development, and clinical treatment. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and completed postdoctoral fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. Before joining PNRI, she was an Assistant Professor at Baylor for six years, where she maintains a visiting faculty appointment in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. She is also an affiliate faculty member with the University of Washington’s Department of Genome Sciences, and a faculty member of the Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Program.  

Website: https://pnri.org/carvalho-lab/