Shaheen Kabir
IGI-AZ Postdoctoral Fellow
Shaheen Kabir received her PhD in the Biomedical Sciences from The Rockefeller University in New York, in June 2015. She performed her graduate research in the laboratory of Titia de Lange, focusing on understanding mechanisms of DNA repair using telomeres in mammalian cells as a model system. Shaheen joined the IGI staff as an IGI-AZ Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2015, and is using CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome engineering and screening to study various cancers.
