Katherine Cullen

Katherine Cullen (born 7 November 1968) is an American biologist.

Early life and education Cullen was born in Midland, Michigan to Jim and Ann Hicks. In March 2019, Cullen's research was recognized in Scientific American by Erez Lieberman Aiden.

Career She then moved to Lexington, Kentucky and began post-doctoral training at the Chandler Medical Center at University of Kentucky in the Department of Biochemistry.

During her dissertation at Vanderbilt University, Cullen and colleagues worked in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Seyfred. Their goal was to look for relationships between how prolactin is packaged and how the gene expression is regulated. They did discover a relationship, although what makes this research notable is that a new technique for probing the chromatin structure was discovered. "Cullen's work offered some of the first direct evidence that the larger three-dimensional structure of the genome is related to its function." Her research also led to the formation of the well-known method "Hi-C" also known as "3C".