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Nadine Fornelos Martins, Ph.D.

Executive Director of Research Initiatives

Nadine is the executive director of the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) at Harvard Medical School.  She works alongside MassCPR executive leaders, principal investigators, and stakeholders to develop and implement the operational strategy of MassCPR.  Prior to joining HMS, she worked at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she led projects and teams in the functional interpretation of genes associated with complex disorders.  Before turning to human genetics, she worked on the human gut microbiome in the Xavier Laboratory, also at the Broad Institute, and discovered a family of biomarkers of inflammatory bowel disease.

Prior to joining the Broad Institute, Nadine was a visiting scientist in the Salas Laboratory at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Spain, where she characterized inhibitors of mutagenic DNA repair in Gram-positive bacteria.

Nadine completed her Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and she was a Marie Curie COFUND postdoctoral fellow at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.