Daphne Martschenko

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Daphne Martschenko (born November 6, 1992 in London) [1] is an American academic.

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Early life and education

Martschenko was born in London, to Alex, a U.S. foreign service officer of Ukrainian heritage, and Oluwatoyin ("Toyin"), originally from Nigeria. She has three sisters and lived in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine while young. [2] [3] She attended Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, where she was a member the crew team her freshman year. [4] She later attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she majored in Slavic languages and anthropology. [4] [5] In 2014, she enrolled at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained a PhD, focused on the impact of behavioral genetics on the education system. [6]

Rowing career

While at Stanford, she earned two gold medals, one in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship. [2] She represented the United States at two World Rowing U23 Championships. [1] While at the University of Cambridge, she competed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and was elected president of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for the 2018 boat race campaign. [5]

Academic career

She is currently an assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Her work focuses on the ethical and social implications of human genetic research. [7]

Selected Works

Martschenko DO; Wand H; Young JL; Wojcik GL. (2023) Including multiracial individuals is crucial for race, ethnicity and ancestry frameworks in genetics and genomics. Nature Genetics.

Martschenko DO, Callier SL, Garrison NA, Lee SS, Turley P, Meyer MN, Parens E. (2023) Wrestling with Public Input on an Ethical Analysis of Scientific Research. The Hastings Center Report.

Sabatello M, Martschenko DO, Cho MK, Brothers KB. (2022) Data sharing and community-engaged research. Science.

Martschenko DO, Trejo S. (2021) Ethical, anticipatory genomics research on human behavior means celebrating disagreement. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

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References

  1. 1 2 "Daphne Martschenko profile", Official website, World Rowing , retrieved May 17, 2018
  2. 1 2 2010-11 Women's Rowing Roster: Daphne Martschenko, Stanford Athletics, retrieved May 18, 2018
  3. Richard Winton (March 24, 2016), Boat Races 2016: Daphne Martschenko has travelled a long way to reach Cambridge, BBC
  4. 1 2 Molly Bruggeman (March 23, 2018), "Martschenko Leads Cambridge Women into Boat Race", Official website, USRowing, archived from the original on May 18, 2018, retrieved May 18, 2018
  5. 1 2 James Lee (March 22, 2018), "Blondie 2018", Official website, Cambridge University Women's Boat Club, archived from the original on May 18, 2018, retrieved May 17, 2018
  6. "Daphne Martschenko - Behavioural genetics and intelligence: its impact on the US education system", Gates Cambridge Scholarships official website, Gates Foundation, June 20, 2016, archived from the original on May 18, 2018, retrieved May 17, 2018
  7. "Daphne O. Martschenko's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved January 1, 2023.

Official Website

Stanford University Profile