Kristen L. Drucker, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at Mayo Clinic, working in the lab of Dr. Robert Jenkins. She completed her B.A. in chemistry at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Her current research focuses on germline alterations in low-grade IDH glioma, and how those alterations interact with somatic alterations during tumor development.