Lisa Borsuk received her Master of Science at Iowa State University in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in 2007. After graduation, she worked for a small startup biotech company conducting sequencing and sequence analysis. She started at NIST in August 2015 in the Applied Genetics Group, working on sequence analysis of short tandem repeats (STR).
Projects and Activities
2024 - Bronze Medal Award
For the modernization of the Short Tandem Repeat DNA Internet Database, a key data resource for human identity DNA testing practitioners worldwide.
2021 - Judson C. French Award
For the development and characterization of a next-generation forensic DNA Standard Reference Material using a diverse suite of molecular techniques.