Member of the American Heart Association
Member of the American Chemical Society
Member of AASLD
Member of ASPET
Member of the Boshell Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Group @ Auburn
Member of the Center for Clinical & Translational Science (CCTS) @ UAB
Kristine Griffett, M.S., Ph.D.
I grew up on Long Island (N.Y.) fishing, playing softball, and going to the beach. I was an Emergency Medical Technician, volunteered for my local ambulance company, and worked for Suffolk County Parks for several years while attending college. I received my Bachelor’s of Science from St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue, NY in Biology in 2004.
In 2006, I received my Master’s of Science from Long Island University (C.W. Post Campus) and took a brief break following graduation to teach several biology courses at LIU. In 2007 I began my Ph.D. journey at the University of South Florida in Tampa in the Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology.
My graduate research focused on utilizing zebrafish embryos to identify and characterize a unique set of genes within two separate known regions of genomic instability, one on chromosome 18 and the other on chromosome 4. The fish used in this study were previously classified as genomic instability (gin) mutants 1-12 based on the increased incidence of somatic mutation during early embryogenesis and tested with the mosaic eye assay developed by Streisinger.
In 2011, I graduated and joined the laboratory of Thomas P. Burris at The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, FL. In 2013, the lab moved to Saint Louis University where I continued my postdoctoral fellowship in which I was funded by NIH NIDDK NURSA F32 for my work on LXR and NAFLD and NASH. In 2017, I was awarded a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association for my work on LXR and cholesterol, and promoted to Research Assistant Professor. In 2018, I began my position as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the Center for Clinical Pharmacology, which is a joint collaboration between St. Louis College of Pharmacy at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy and Washington University in St. Louis (Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine).
In 2022, I began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology at Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
My work focuses on nuclear receptor pharmacology and physiology, and the development of novel therapeutics for cardio-metabolic, inflammatory, and related diseases.
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