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Early life and education
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Seidman was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan [2] and grew up on Long Island .[3] She earned a BS in biochemistry from Harvard University , and received her MD from the George Washington School of Medicine in 1978. She did an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1978 to 1981 and a cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1982 to 1986.[2] [4]
Career
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In 1986, Seidman joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School as a lecturer in genetics. In 1997 she was promoted to full professor. She was the founding director of Cardiovascular Genetics Center and has led the institute since 1992.[2] [5] She is a co-founder of MyoKardia, a precision medicine company.[6] [7]
Seidman has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1994.[8] Seidman has authored more than 400 scientific publications.[2] She also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2017.
The Seidman lab researches the genetics involved in diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , and was recognized for discovering the first genetic cause of congenital heart defects .[9]
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Beginning in 2009, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology has awarded the Seidman Prize for MD Research Mentorship in honor of her and her husband.[11]
Personal life
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Seidman met her husband, Jonathan Seidman , while they were students at Harvard, and they were married in 1973. They operate a joint lab at Harvard and are both founding members of MyoKardia. In 2002, they shared the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research. They have three children.[3] [6]
Awards
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References
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^ a b "Jonathan and Christine Seidman" . Harvard Magazine . 1 November 2002. Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "Christine Edry Seidman, MD - Brigham and Women's Hospital" . physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "Christine Seidman, MD – Discover Brigham and Women's Hospital" . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ a b "MyoKardia" . www.myokardia.com . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "MyoKardia" . www.myokardia.com . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "Christine E. Seidman" . HHMI.org . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "Jonathan Seidman" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "Genetic Causes of Human Heart Disease" . HHMI.org . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ "Seidman Prize for MD Research Mentorship | Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology" . hst.mit.edu . Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ a b "The American Society for Clinical Investigation" . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
^ a b c Walsh, Mary Norine (2018). "Women as leaders in cardiovascular medicine" . Clinical Cardiology . 41 (2 ): 269–273. doi :10.1002/clc.22920 . PMC 6489735 . PMID 29485719 .
^ "Christine Seidman" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 5 May 2019 .
External links
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christine_Seidman&oldid=1225092856 "
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