Berivan Baskin received her Ph.D in molecular immunology from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship with Dr. Tony Pawson at Mount Sinai Hospital and a clinical molecular genetics fellowship with Dr. Peter Ray at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She holds specialty certifications in Clinical Molecular Genetics from the American Board of Medical Genetics and the Canadian College of Medical Genetics. Before joining Uppsala University Hospital she worked eight years in the molecular genetics laboratory at The Hospital for Sick Children, where she focused on the process for translating new discoveries into clinical practice.