Sarah Adelaide Crawford
Southern Connecticut State University, USA
Biography
Sarah Adelaide Crawford completed her Doctoral degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. She completed her Master’s Degree in Biochemistry at Princeton University. Her Post-doctoral research was carried out at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She is a Professor of Genetics at Southern Connecticut State University and Director of the Cancer Biology Research Laboratory. In 2013, she was awarded two patents [USA, Canada and Europe] for developing novel combined chemotherapy approaches using a new plant extract formulation for brain tumors and other malignancies. She has developed a new model to explain the causes of autism and its recent dramatic increase. Applications of this model can be used in preventive approaches to screen for autism risk factors to reduce the occurrence of this disorder.