Christian M. Gallardo, PhD, MBS
Senior Staff Scientist
Research Interests: Viral Genomics, Assay and Method Development, Molecular Biology, Molecular Diagnostics, Bioinformatics
E-mail: christian.gallardo@seattlechildrens.org
Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education: PhD in Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. MBS in Pharmaceutical Discovery/Development and In Vitro Diagnostics, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA. BA in Molecular Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Awards/Fellowships/Grants:
- UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (2024-2026), New Investigator Award, Gallardo (PI): Discovery of Isoform-specific HIV-1 vRNA structured motifs via single molecule long-read sequencing
- Washington Research Foundation (2023-2024), Phase 1 Technology Commercialization Grant, Gallardo (PI): Improving and simplifying high throughput RNA sequencing with CASPR, a novel reagent class
- Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation Fellowship Award (2018)
- Presidential Scholarship, Keck Graduate Institute (2012-2013)
- Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Research Program (2009)
- Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Program (2008)
- Jack Steller Fellow for Curriculum Enhancement (2007)
- Vogelstein-Nussenbaum Scholarship, Pomona College (2006-2010)
Interests Outside Lab: Photography, Music, Entrepreneurship, recently interested in Running and Hiking around the PNW