Marc Lalande, Ph.D.

Health Net Professor and Chairman, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences
Executive Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine Programs
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Email: lalande@uchc.edu | Phone: +1 860-679-8350
Dr. Lalande’s research is on the role of epigenetics in disease and development. Epigenetics refers the study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without an alteration in DNA sequence. The Lalande laboratory is focused on translational studies of human epigenetic disorders using murine models and human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell technology. Dr. Lalande received a PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto in 1981. His postdoctoral training was with Dr. Samuel A. Latt in the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA. From 1985 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Center for Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec before returning to Boston Children’s Hospital. He remained at Harvard Medical School until 1998 where we was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and an Assistant Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has published extensively in the areas of human molecular genetics and genomic imprinting.