Lady Davis Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dr Claudia Kleinman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is a full-time Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, an Associate Member of the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer, and a researcher at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health. Her research exploits genome-wide technologies and data science to understand mechanisms of gene expression. She has an interdisciplinary training that combines molecular biology, computer science, statistics and evolutionary biology, which she applies to the study of pathological transcriptional and RNA processing events. Her recent work focuses on using single-cell technologies to resolve cell-to-cell variation in pediatric brain tumors. Dr Kleinman has received awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), National Institute of Health (NIH), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and currently holds a career award from the Fond de Recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS). She is the recipient of the Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize, for her work mapping the development of the human brain at the single cell level to define the origins of pediatric brain tumors.
