Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD
Assistant Professor, Track V, Medicine - Neurology
"In the post human genome era, where a growing number of disease-associated genetic variants are being reported in non-coding regions, there is an increased need for a model system to pinpoint the causal variants within an associated locus."Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD is an Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine and the IGSP.
She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1999. Subsequently, she was a post-doctoral and then a research fellow in the lab of Dr. Robert Nussbaum at the National Human Genome Research Institute, where she applied functional genomics approach to study the role of alpha-synuclein (SNCA) in sporadic Parkinson’s disease.
She joined the Duke faculty in the summer of 2007 and works with both the Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics and the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
Contact Information
Ornit Chiba-Falek
Phone: 919-681-8001
o.chibafalek@duke.edu
Physical Address:
4010 GSRB II
Box 3471
Durham, NC 27710