Beverly Davidson, PhD

Immediate Past President (2021-2022)

Beverly Davidson, Ph.D. comes to ASGCT by way of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and has been an active member in ASGCT since the Society's founding. She joins the ASGCT line of presidential succession following an engaged history as a committee member and Society leader.

Davidson's work is focused on inherited genetic diseases that cause central nervous system dysfunction, with a particular eye on recessive, childhood onset neurodegenerative disease; dominant genetic diseases; and understanding how noncoding RNAs participate in neural development and neurodegenerative diseases process.