Dr. Sharon Soodeen-Karamath – Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2003

Sharon Soodeen-Karamath received her B.Sc. from the University of the West Indies and her PhD from Guelph University. She took on the difficult challenge of generating embryonic stem cells from non-obese diabetic mice as a research tool for diabetes studies before deciding to get more into the business side of science.

Funded by Stem Cell Network and SickKids Restracomp Awards.

Next position
MBA program and Sigma Biochemicals

Selected Publications:
Chen J, Reifsnyder PC, Scheuplein F, Schott WH, Milievsky M, Soodeen-Karamath S, Nagy A, Dosch H-M, Ellis J, Koch-Nolte F, Leiter EH. (2005) “Agouti NOD”: identification of a CBA-derived Idd locus on Chromosome 7 and its use for chimera production with NOD embryonic stem cells. Mammalian Genome. 16:775-783.