Galen Wright, PhD

Cross-appointment

• Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Max Rady College of Medicine

Accepting graduate students

• Master’s - yes
• PhD - yes

Research themes

• Precision medicine in neurology
• Genomics of DNA repair in the brain

Keywords

• Bioinformatics
• DNA repair
• Genetics
• Genomics
• Neurology
• Neuroscience
• Precision medicine
• Pharmacogenomics
• Rare disease

Research affiliations

• Principal investigator, neuroscience research program, Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine, Health Sciences Centre

Research summary

Dr. Galen Wright is broadly interested in identifying genetic factors that contribute towards risk for neurological disorders, as well as fundamental biological processes in the brain. To accomplish this, his research group performs bioinformatic analyses on large-scale genomic data. The results of these computational analyses are then used to inform downstream functional validation experiments, including gene editing work (e.g., CRISPR/Cas9). Insights obtained from this research lead to a better understanding of human biology, the identification of novel therapeutic targets, as well as improved risk prediction models.