Robin G. Lorenz Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
Robin G. Lorenz, Genentech, Inc., USA
Senior Director, Department of Pathology
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Lorenz received her BS from Stanford University and then attended Washington University in St Louis as a Medical Scientist Training Program fellow, where in 1990 she received her MD and her PhD in immunology. She was a resident in laboratory medicine (clinical pathology) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and then transitioned to assistant professor in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine at Washington University. In addition to directing the basic science research lab focused on chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, she was codirector of the Joint Clinical Immunology Laboratory of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St Louis Children’s Hospital and associate director of the Laboratory Medicine Residency Training Program.
Dr. Lorenz joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty in 2002 in the Department of Pathology. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation have funded her laboratory research investigating the mucosal immune system.
At Genentech, her department provides high quality pathology support to laboratory and clinical scientists engaged in biomarker strategy/development/deployment across the drug development pipeline. In addition, she is involved in career development for her scientists and physician-scientists and is interesting in enhancing training and career opportunities for physician scientists in the biotech industry.
