ISSN: 2642-4274
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology
Duke University School of Medicine
United States of America
Tel: 919-681-8001
Dr. Chiba-Falek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Duke University School of Medicine and a faculty in the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC). She is also a faculty member in the Duke’s Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), and a faculty in the Division of Human Genetics. Dr. Chiba-Falek received her PhD in Genetics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and post-doctoral training in Neurogenetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute. She joined the faculty at Duke University in 2007. Dr. Ornit Chiba Falek research interests includes regulation of gene expression and splicing in neurodegenerative diseased brains, molecular genetics of the human aging brain in health and disease, neurogenetics, Molecular mechanism/s underlying human complex traits, cognitive Genetics and Genomics, basic and applied research to advance drug discovery for AD prevention and delay of onset, development and execution of high-throughput genotyping assays to facilitate pre-clinical and clinical.
