Alexander Meissner
scientific officer
research
AMGEN
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Meissner is a senior associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and an associate professor in the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Dr. Meissner is also a principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a Robertson Investigator at the New York Stem Cell Foundation and is a participant in a project on cellular reprogramming in collaboration with the Klarman Cell Observatory. Dr. Meissner’s laboratory uses genomic tools to study developmental and stem cell biology with a particular focus on the role of epigenetic regulation. Dr. Meissner and his colleagues have pioneered next generation sequencing technologies to study the epigenome in both normal development and disease states.
Research Interest
Microbiology
