Sarah Adelaide Crawford
Southern Connecticut State University, USA
Biography
Dr. Sarah Adelaide Crawford received a doctoral degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. She received a Master’s Degree in biochemistry from Princeton University. Her post-doctoral research was carried out at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Crawford is Professor of Genetics at Southern Connecticut State University and Director of the Cancer Biology Research Laboratory. In 2013, she was awarded two patents [USA, Canada and Europe] for developing novel combined chemotherapy approaches using a new plant extract formulation for brain tumors and other malignancies. Dr. Crawford has begun a new research initiative to study the causes and prevention of autism. She has developed a new model to explain the causes of autism and its recent dramatic increase. Applications of this model can be used in preventive approaches to screen for autism risk factors to reduce the occurrence of this disorder.