Lisa Edelmann

Lisa Edelmann, Ph.D., FACMG, is Vice President of Prenatal Laboratory Operations at BillionToOne and a nationally recognized expert in clinical genetics and population-based carrier screening. She has published extensively on Ashkenazi Jewish genetic disorders and developed novel approaches to genetic testing, including methods for identifying individuals at increased risk of being silent carriers for spinal muscular atrophy and incorporating genetic ancestry into pan-ethnic carrier screening. Before joining BillionToOne in 2023, Lisa co-founded Sema4, where she served as Chief Diagnostics Officer, and previously served as Executive Director of the Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed fellowship training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is board-certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics.