Jonathan Seidman
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Jonathan G. Seidman is the Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He operates a joint lab with his wife, Christine Seidman, where they study genetic mechanisms of heart disease.
Jonathan Seidman grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut and went to high school in Ghana.[1] He studied biochemistry at Harvard University, graduating in 1971. In 1975, he completed his PhD in molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin.[1]
After doing postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Health in the lab of Philip Leder, he began working at Harvard Medical School in 1981.[1][2][3] He is now the Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics.[4] He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator from 1988-2005.[5]
The Seidman lab researches the genetics involved in diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and was recognized for discovering the first genetic cause of congenital heart defects.[6][7]
Beginning in 2009, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology has awarded the Seidman Prize for MD Research Mentorship in honor of him and his wife.[8]