Lisa has a strong academic track record at preeminent research institutions in Europe and the United States. Her interests and endeavors have thus far extended from solving basic scientific problems to supporting applied clinical practice. Lisa completed her graduate studies at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge (UK), and postdoctoral studies at the Center for Neurologic Disease, Harvard Medical School, where she later held a junior faculty position in the Department of Neurology. Lisa further held the position of Associate Immunologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. Dr. Anderson was also a research affiliate at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lisa has authored numerous articles that span several scientific disciplines in top-tier journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has also acted as Vice President at a venture capital firm (Seed-One Ventures) and lead an international technology sourcing and evaluation program. Lisa received a B.Sc. in Biomedical Science from Anglia Ruskin University (UK) and a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from the University of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College (UK).