Birgit H. Funke PhD, FACMG

Dr.Birgit Funke, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology, MGH/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Funke received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the University of Würzburg, Germany and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where she identified the gene for 22q11 deletion syndrome. She continued her research on 22q11DS at Harvard Medical School where she also trained in Clinical Molecular Genetics.

Dr. Funke obtained her ABMG Board certification in Clinical Molecular Genetics in 2007 and is now Director of Clinical Research and Development at the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (LMM) and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She also oversees clinical genetic testing and sign-out for inherited cardiovascular disorders and implemented clinical next generation sequencing (NGS) for these disorders.