Caroline Schuerger was a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she focuses on emerging issues in biotechnology and AI. Prior to joining CSET, Caroline earned her PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She was a 2020 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has earned Bachelor degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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