Shane Horman's Biography

Shane Horman, Research Investigator, Functional Genomics – Advanced Assays, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Dr. Shane Horman runs the Advanced Assay group at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, California. He received his Ph.D. from King’s College-London in molecular genetics and was a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania-School of Medicine and then at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center investigating mouse models of human leukemias. Dr. Horman’s Advanced Assay group at GNF is dedicated to the development and implementation of complex and 3D high content microphysiological screening platforms that may better reflect in vivo patient biology for early stage drug discovery. Dr. Horman has published numerous papers on high content 3D screening platforms and regularly presents at phenotypic drug discovery conferences.