Karlene Cimprich

Karlene Cimprich, Ph.D., is a Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a member of Stanford’s Cancer Institute and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford. Dr. Cimprich’s research focuses specifically on understanding the mechanisms by which a cell maintains genome stability in the context of DNA replication, and how dysfunction of these processes can lead to cancer and other diseases. Dr. Cimprich is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Kimmel Scholar Award, the Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award in Toxicology, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award and the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award in Aging.