Katrin Chua MD, PhD

Dr. Katrin Chua is a Professor in Medicine and Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Stanford University. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry from Harvard University and her MD and PhD from the Harvard MSTP. Dr. Chua’s research focuses on mechanisms of chromatin and nuclear signaling, and how deregulation of these mechanisms contributes to aging and disease.

During her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Chua and colleagues were among the first to study the mammalian SIRT6 and SIRT7 genes and made the seminal discovery that SIRT6 prevents genomic instability and many degenerative pathologies in mice. In her lab at Stanford, Dr. Chua pioneered novel biochemical and proteomic approaches to uncover the enzymatic activities of SIRT6 and SIRT7 as highly selective histone deacetylases.