Theodore Rasmussen's Biography

Theodore Rasmussen, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Dr. Rasmussen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Connecticut, and a member of the U. Conn. Stem Cell Institute. Dr. Rasmussen earned a B.S. degree in at the University of Washington, a Ph.D. the University of Wisconsin in genetics, and completed postdoctoral research at MIT, working on X chromosome inactivation in stem cells. In 2002, Rasmussen founded a stem cell and epigenetics lab at the University of Connecticut. His research is currently focused on stem cell chromatin, reprogramming, and the use of ES cells and iPS cells to model human genetic disorders and mechanisms of toxicology. Rasmussen also studies chromatin dynamics during preimplantation development, cellular reprogramming, and X chromosome inactivation.