Humans of 5050 C1

Boston, US

George M. Church

Synthetic genomics, Genome engineering, Directed evolution, Drug development

Cambridge MA, USA

Feng Zhang

genome editing, molecular biology, microbiome, aging, cell engineering

Boston, United States; Oxford, UK

Peter Park (HMS) + TBD (Oxford)

personalized immunotherapy, rare diseases, computational biology

Boston, USA

William Shih

Current research interests: DNA nanotechnology, molecular programming, diagnostics, nucleation, self-assembly, bioengineering

Background: pharmacology, materials science, data science

Cambridge, MA

Eric Lander, Soumya Raychaudhuri

Single cell genomics; machine learning; causal inference; gene regulation; bioinformatics

New York City, USA

Jan Krumsiek

Data Science, Metabolomics, Biostatistical Modeling

Toronto

Juan-Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker

immunology, stem cells, synthetic biology

Menlo Park, CA

Russ Altman, MD/PhD

Immunology, machine learning, oncology

Redwood City, CA

Tom Soh

Molecular Switches, Diagnostic Medicine, DNA Sequencing, Human Physiology

Boston, USA

Sangeeta Bhatia

Early detection of cancer, liquid biopsy, nanomedicine, protease biology

Mountain View, CA

Elizabeth Sattely, Polly Fordyce

natural product biosynthesis, bioactive phytochemicals, plant synthetic biology, single cell analysis, droplet microfluidics

San Francisco

Alex Marson, Kole Roybal, Jeff Bluestone

Synthetic Biology, Immunology, Genome Engineering

Boston, MA

Douglas Densmore

microfluidics; machine learning; synthetic biology; lab automation

Boston, US

Fei Chen, Rafael Irizarry

Background in mathematics, computer science, and statistics. Current research in computational and statistical methodology, spatial transcriptomics, RNA-sequencing. Prior research in probability theory, computational neuroscience. Also interested in therapeutics discovery and metabolic engineering.

Cambridge, MA

Prof. Aviv Regev

Machine Learning, Genomics, etc.

Cambridge, MA, USA

Aaron Schmidt

drug discovery, infectious disease, peptide therapeutics, virology, directed evolution

Boston, US

Mark Bathe

DNA Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Industrial Biotechnology

Berkeley, CA, USA

David Schaffer

stem cell bioengineering, biomaterials, cellular biomanufacturing, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, optogenetics

Palo Alto, USA

Mark Cutkosky (secondary - William Hiesinger)

medical devices, cardiovascular engineering, smart devices, heart failure, soft robotics

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Brian Chow

Protein engineering; Optogenetics

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Dr. Jennifer Cochran

Protein engineering, therapeutics development

Boston, MA

Christopher Voigt

Synthetic biology, bacterial strain engineering, agriculture, living therapeutics

Cambridge, MA, USA

Mark Bathe

DNA nanotechnology, quantum computing, molecular computing, energy conversion

Palo Alto, USA

Tony Wyss-Coray, Stephen Montgomery

aging and rejuvenation, epigenetic reprogramming, proteomics, single cell omics, protein design, AI/machine learning/deep learning

Boston, USA

Peng Yin

DNA nanotechnology, DNA synthesis, DNA-based imaging tools, nucleic acid barcoding, spatial -omics, AI-based drug discovery

San Francisco

Matthew Spitzer

Clinical, Translational, Immunology, Microbiome, Computational, multi-OMIC, Cancer, Autoimmunity, Immunotherapy, Immune Modulation, Data Science

Boston, USA

Feng Zhang

Genome stability and genome engineering

Philadelphia, USA

Zoltan Arany

metabolomics, transcriptomics, genomics, metabolism, NASH/NAFLD, fibrosis, mTOR

San Francisco, CA

Qizhi Tang and Jeff Bluestone

Immune tolerance, genome editing, cell therapy, autoimmunity, cancer, diet

Los Angeles

Song Li / Manish Butte

Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Immunoengineering, Tissue Engineering, Polymers, Nanomedicine

Pasadena, USA

Michael Elowitz

Synthetic biological circuits

Boston, USA

George Church (co-advised Himadri Pakrasi)

Microbiology, Photosynthesis, CRISPR, Multiplexing, NGS, Genetic Engineering, Synthetic Biology

Cambridge, MA, USA

Paul Blainey

microbiome, antibiotics, transcriptomics

New York

John Chodera

Single cell, computational chemistry, machine learning, cell therapy, stem cells, genetic control

Bay Area, USA

Jeannette Bohg

machine learning, computer vision, robotics, cell therapy, high throughput assay

Chicago, USA

Chad Mirkin

nanotechnology, nanomedicine, immunotherapeutics

Menlo Park, USA

Stephen Quake

systems biology, transcriptomics, prenatal health, drug discovery and development, automation, computer science, liquid biopsy

Somerville, USA

Ryan Flynn

mRNA therapeutics, glycobiology

Cambridge, UK (until December 2021)

Oren Scherman

formulation, protein stability, excipient development, machine learning

United States, Boston

George Church

cell and gene therapy, oncology, platelet biology, drug delivery, immunology

Boston, USA

David Gifford

generative models; generalizable machine learning; single-cell transcriptomics; antibody therapeutics; vaccine design

Oxford, UK/Boston, USA

Garry Nolan

Spatial omics, machine learning, theoretical biology

Cambridge, MA (USA)

Dr. Connor Coley

biocatalysis, machine learning, bioretrosynthesis, metabolomics

Palo Alto, USA

Stephen Quake

systems biology, single cell genomics, next gen sequencing, aging/longevity, defining cellular identity, liquid biopsy

Pasadena, CA

Mikhail Shapiro

Synthetic biology, protein engineering, cell therapies, molecular imaging.

Boston

George Church

Cell Therapy, Gene Editing, T-cells, SynBio, Immunology

San Francisco, USA

Michael Snyder

single cell multiomics, precancer, early detection & diagnostics, maternal health

NYC

Siddhartha Mukherjee; Ai Yamamoto

Neuroscience, cancer, immunology, immunoengineering

San Jose, USA

Sue Rhee

Plant biology, cell and molecular biology, liquid-liquid phase separation.

Cambridge, USA

Jason Buenrostro

spatial genomics, single-cell genomics, aging, stem cells, regenerative medicine

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Crystal L. Mackall; Sylvia K. Plevritis

cancer immunotherapy, CAR T cells, lymphoma, leukemia, head and neck cancer, CODEX, single-cell sequencing, data integration