BRITT ADAMSON

@bsadamson, scholar, pubmed

badamson@princeton.edu

Dr. Adamson is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. She is also a member of the Genomic Instability and Cancer Genetics Program at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Adamson started her training in 2004 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Angelika Amon. In 2007, she joined the lab of Stephen Elledge at Harvard Medical School, where she used functional genomics approaches to study DNA repair in human cells. She earned her PhD from Harvard Medical School in 2012. Dr. Adamson then worked with Jonathan Weissman at the University of California, San Francisco, where she received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Her postdoctoral work pioneered new approaches for functional genomics in human cells, technologies that now enable dissection of cellular pathways with unprecedented resolution. With her lab at Princeton, Dr. Adamson continues to use and develop cutting-edge experimental tools, including genetic screening methods and single-cell RNA-sequencing, to study genome editing and DNA repair, as well as other areas of interest to the group. Dr. Adamson is the recipient of a 2020 Searle Scholars Award and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Investigator Award.