Stacey Gabriel

Stacey B. Gabriel is an American geneticist and Senior Director of the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute. With Eric Lander, she is also the co-director of the National Human Genome Research Institute's sequencing center at the Broad Institute. She was named the "hottest researcher" on Thomson Reuters' list of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014. She was given this honor because she published twenty-three of the most cited papers of 2013, more than any other single researcher recorded by Thomson Reuters. Out of the twenty-three articles she published that year, her favorite paper was examining various tumors and then exploring and analyzing which genes were involved in causing cancer. She is also an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.

In 2020, Gabriel helped create and organize a high-throughput COVID-19 testing facility based out of the Broad Institute. Under her guidance, the institute has processed over 10 million tests as of April 2021.

Education Gabriel received her B.S. in molecular biology from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in human genetics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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