Karenna J. Groff, BS, MEng (she/her/hers)

Medical Student
NYU Grossman School of Medicine; F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
New York, NY, US

Karenna Groff is a medical student at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in NYU's Three-Year Accelerated MD Pathway for Neurosurgery. She graduated from MIT in 2022 where she studied Biological Engineering. She subsequently completed a Master in Biomedical Engineering at MIT where her thesis work focused on understanding the genetic basis of epilepsy. She is passionate about pediatric neurosurgery, accelerating basic research findings into improved therapeutics for neurological disorders, and increasing global access to high-quality medical care.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Postnatal DEPDC5 Loss Without Disruption of Cortical Migration is Sufficient to Cause Epilepsy and Seizure-Induced Death

  Friday, May 3, 2024
  3:00 PM – 3:04 PM CT

• CD97 (ADGRE5) – A Targetable Vulnerability in Glioblastoma

  Sunday, May 5, 2024
  1:43 PM – 1:45 PM CT