Christopher Mason

Christopher completed his dual post-doctoral training at Yale Medical School in genetics and a fellowship at Yale Law School. He obtained his PhD in Genetics from Yale University, and his dual BS in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As an award-winning geneticist, he has 150+ peer-reviewed articles and has been featured on the covers of several science publications. His lab develops and deploys new biochemical and computational methods in functional genomics and metagenomics. The group also works closely with NIST/FDA to build international standards. These methods are also being integrated for longitudinal multi-omic profiling of NASA astronauts and for genetic and epigenetic diagnostics on the International Space Station.

Christopher has won awards from the NIH, the CDC and the WorldQuant Foundation. He was named as one of the ‘Brilliant Ten’ Scientists by Popular Science, and has been featured as a TEDMED speaker.