Xandra Breakefield

Xandra Owens Breakefield
Alma materGeorgetown University
Wilson College
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
ThesisBacterial division : studies using a temperature-sensitive septationless mutant of Bacillus subtilis (1972)

Xandra Owens Breakefield is an American neurologist and professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School. Her research makes use of molecular genetics to understand the origins of inherited neurological diseases.