Catherine Ball

Dr. Ball serves as Scientific Advisor to PrognomiQ. She is Senior Vice President of Research at Pacific Biosciences, where she leads early research and technology development activities. Before joining Pacific Bioscience, she was the Chief Scientific Officer at AncestryDNA, where she led a team of laboratory and data scientists in building the platform and analytics behind the AncestryDNA and AncestryHealth direct-to-consumer products and services. Prior to her time at AncestryDNA, Dr. Ball was a genomic scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she led the Stanford Microarray Database, the largest academic database of its kind. Dr. Ball received a B.S. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles.