Jennifer Franks, PhD is a principal investigator in the Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CDBRM) at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics (Division of Genetic Medicine) at University of Washington.
Dr. Franks earned her PhD from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth where she developed machine learning approaches for molecular subtypes in systemic sclerosis with Michael Whitfield, PhD. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Cole Trapnell, PhD in the Department of Genome Sciences at University of Washington working on single-cell analyses of inflammation and fibrosis in multiple organs.