Christina A. Pacak PhD

Christina A. Pacak, PhD. is a translational molecular biologist with a long-standing personal interest in Cockayne syndrome. She has built a laboratory program to develop gene therapies for several forms of Cockayne syndrome and to gain a greater understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms.

Dr. Pacak is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and was previously an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She has served on national committees for the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy and has published over a dozen peer-reviewed manuscripts describing the development or use of adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a gene delivery system to treat rare diseases.

Dr. Pacak earned her PhD at the University of Florida and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School.