Owen Murray Rennert MD

Owen M. Rennert, M.D. was the Head of the Laboratory of Clinical and Developmental Genomics from 2009 to 2013 and served as Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research NICHD from 2000 to 2009. Dr. Rennert obtained his M.D. from the University of Chicago, School of Medicine in 1961. Thereafter, he did a year of pediatric residency (1961-62) at the University of Chicago, postdoctoral fellow in Biochemistry (1962-62), and a second year of pediatric residency at the University of Chicago (1963-64). He obtained his M.S. in Biochemistry in 1963, also from the University of Chicago. Upon completion, he became a research/clinical fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke from 1964-to 66. Dr. Rennert then pursued a fulfilling and accomplished academic career. From 1998-2000 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Director of NICHD, and subsequently Scientific Director of NICHD from 2000-2009, and head of the Lab of Clinical and Developmental Genomics. In 2009, he stepped down as Scientific Director to return full-time to his research.