Beverly Davidson

Biography

Beverly Davidson, Ph.D., Director of the Raymond G Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics and Arthur V. Meigs Chair in Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Davidson’s research focuses on the pathogenesis and therapy of hereditary neurogenetic diseases and the role of noncoding RNAs in neural development. She is an internationally known expert in the study of inherited neurological diseases and the development of molecular therapies. Dr. Davidson has been named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received the NIH Mathilde Solowey Award, was elected to the Advisory Council for the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy and NINDS council, and was past chair of the Medical Sciences Section for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Research Interest

Molecular, Cellular Biology