CWRU - Key Persons

Dr. David LePage trained in genetics and received his PhD in Dr Conlon's laboratory in 2001 in Genetics. In his thesis research, Dr LePage developed new methods to generate large genomic deletions in mouse embryonic stem cells through a novel combination of gene targeting and site-specific recombinase techniques. David joined the Department of Genetics transgenic facility in 2001.

Dr. Ron Conlon is a developmental biologist and mouse geneticist. He has directed his own research laboratory in the CWRU Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences since 1994, and is currently an Associate Professor. He became Director of the Genetics Transgenic Facility in 2000. In the past, his research focused on embryonic development of the mouse, and made extensive use of transgenics, gene knockouts, knockins and conditional alleles. In addition, his laboratory made contributions in the field of chromosome engineering, developing new technologies for generating large deletions by combined gene targeting, site-specific recombinases and other technologies. Dr. Conlon's current research focusses on translation of somatic gene-editing into therapeutics for cystic fibrosis.