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Lars J. Brandén, Ph.D., is Director for the Yale Center for High Throughput Cell Biology. Dr. Brandén was prior to this position the Associate Director for Chemical Genetics at the Judith P. Sulzberger Genome Center, Columbia University, in New York City, Program Director for the Columbia MLSCN and also Director of Automation for the Columbia Molecular Library Screening Center Network, in the Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology. Dr. Brandén received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics from the University of Lund, Sweden, and completed his doctoral studies in cell and molecular biology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, under the guidance of Professor C.I. Edvard Smith. He pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry & Biophysics at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, under the direction of James E. Rothman, Ph.D. Dr. Brandén co-founded a cell- and gene therapy company during his PhD studies and has published over 30 articles as well as presented at numerous conferences.