Dr. Nadya Dimitrova

Biography

Nadya Dimitrova is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine, focusing on the functional characterization of tumor suppressor oncogenic long non-coding RNAs and their regulatory roles in the cancer transcriptome. Originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Brown University in 2002. Following this, she joined the graduate program at Rockefeller University in 2009, where she received her Ph.D. working on signaling and repair of dysfunctional telomeres in the laboratory of Dr. Titia de Lange. During her graduate studies, she was awarded the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Tyler Jacks at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, where she developed genetic mouse models to study the role of long non-coding RNAs in cancer biology. Nadya has received several prestigious awards including the HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship, the Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, the Lung Cancer Research Foundation's 2016 Scientific Merit Award, the V Scholar Award, and the Pew-Stewart Scholar Cancer Research Award.

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