Isabel Aznarez is a co-founder and Vice President of Biology of Stoke Therapeutics. Isabel has extensive experience in human genetics, RNA metabolism, and modulation of RNA processes using antisense oligonucleotides. Prior to founding Stoke Therapeutics, she was a Research Investigator with Prof. Adrian Krainer, whose lab she joined as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. Previously, Isabel was a researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children with Prof. Lap-Chee Tsui, where she focused on the effect of cystic fibrosis mutations on the splicing of the CFTR gene. Isabel holds a Ph.D. in Medical & Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto (2006), and a B.Sc. in Biology and Human Genetics from the University of Uruguay.

Affiliations

• RNA Society
• American Epilepsy Society
• Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society