Biography
- Division:
- Division of Basic and Integrative Biological Sciences – DBIB
- Review Branch:
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics – MGG
- Study Section:
- Therapeutic Approaches to Genetic Diseases – TAG
Dr. Elena Shiffert earned her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, studying the effects of estrogen receptor alpha on cancer regression in mouse models. She trained as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Training Program in Breast Cancer Biology at Georgetown University, where she studied the role of a steroid receptor coactivator in preneoplasia and the progression of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Dr. Shiffert joined the Biology Department at Georgetown University as an assistant professor, where she taught undergraduate genetics, biochemistry, physiology, and graduate genetics courses. She then worked at genetic diagnostic companies, where she curated variants to determine pathogenicity for diagnosis of prenatal, inherited cancer, and rare disease patients, trained and mentored new curators, and NIH Clinical and Laboratory Genetics and Genomics fellows. Dr. Shiffert was the Assistant Clinical Director at the most recent company, where she developed curation and regulation policies and clinical reporting methodologies while establishing a training program and overseeing curation scientists.
