Bob Braun

The Jackson Laboratory has selected Robert Braun PhD, a distinguished scientist in the field of reproductive genetics, as the new Associate Director and Chair for Research. Dr. Braun joins the Laboratory from the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he began working as a postdoctoral fellow in 1986 and now serves as professor of genome sciences and as director and co-director of two different programs for reproductive biology research. He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, chemistry, and mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his PhD at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology. The recipient of many honors and awards, Dr. Braun has also been a visiting scientist at the Medical Research Council in England and, in 2001-2002, at The Jackson Laboratory.