Omar Abudayyeh, PhD & Jonathan Gootenberg, PhD | In Vivo Frontiers Symposium

Omar Abudayyeh is an Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School where he directs a lab developing next-generation gene editing, gene delivery, and synthetic biology technologies and applies them towards new therapeutics and the study of aging. He previously was a McGovern Fellow at MIT where he directed his own research group and before that was at Harvard Medical School and MIT as a graduate student in Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute, where he earned a Ph.D. researching novel CRISPR enzymes for genome editing, therapeutics, and diagnostics. He is a pioneer in the gene editing space as an inventor on dozens of patents and patent applications relating to gene editing and diagnostic innovations, as well as over 30,000 citations on more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Nature, Science, and Cell. He is also co-founder of Sherlock Biosciences, Proof Diagnostics (acquired), and Tome Biosciences, which are commercializing CRISPR-based diagnostics for healthcare and at-home testing, as well as other stealth starts ups in the gene and RNA therapy space, which have collectively raised hundreds of millions. Dr. Abudayyeh has been recognized as Technology Review Innovators Under 35, Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst, Endpoints 20 under 40 Next Generation of Biotech Leaders, 2022 Termeer Scholar, 2018 Forbes 30 under 30, Business Insider 30 under 30, a 2018 TEDMED Hive honoree, and a 2013 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Dr. Abudayyeh graduated from MIT in 2012 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and biological engineering, where he was a Henry Ford II Scholar and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. He also spent two years studying towards an MD at Harvard Medical School.

Jonathan Gootenberg is a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Gootenberg draws from fundamental biological insights to engineer new molecular tools, with a focus on methods that leverage programmability across biological scales. These technologies, including CRISPR-mediated genome and transcriptome perturbation and non-destructive cellular sensing, allow for unprecedented manipulation and profiling of cellular states in the body, and have myriad applications in basic science, diagnostics, and therapeutics. These technologies have been adopted by multiple biotechnology companies, several of which Dr. Gootenberg has co-founded. Previously, Dr. Gootenberg led an independent research group at MIT as a McGovern Fellow. He received his PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard University, conducting research with Aviv Regev and Feng Zhang at the McGovern Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and biological engineering at MIT. He has been honored with awards such as Forbes 30 Under 30, Technology Review 35 Under 35, Endpoints 20 Under 40, and as a scholar of the Termeer Foundation.

In Vivo Frontiers: The Promise and Progress of RNA Delivery & Gene Editing brought together leading researchers in RNA delivery and gene editing to discuss the latest advancements and challenges in these two fields.

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