Ms. Grant joined the Center for Cancer Risk Assessment in 2015. She is a licensed genetic counselor, having earned a master’s degree in Genetic Counseling from Brandeis University in 2005 and a bachelor of science in Molecular Biology from Haverford College in 1997. After graduating from Brandeis University, she worked as a prenatal genetic counselor at Massachusetts General Hospital. From 2006-2009 she worked as a research genetic counselor at Boston Children’s Hospital where she also provided pediatric genetic counseling services. From 2009-2013 she gained experience in cancer genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she worked with children and adults at risk for a variety of hereditary cancer syndromes. Ms. Grant has a love for teaching and enjoys providing outreach education about genetics to a diversity of audiences. She also enjoys research and is currently working on a study aimed at understanding the experiences and outcomes of patients who undergo multi-gene panel testing.
This helped lead to new knowledge and breakthrough therapies.
Our support programs can help patients and their families cope with the challenges of a cancer diagnosis.
Testing for the classic hereditary breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, has been available and widely offered since their discovery in the 1990s. However, new technologies in genetic testing have recently uncovered information about other genes linked to hereditary breast cancer.
