Biography
Our lab's goal is to understand the genetic circuits that control human immune cell function in health and disease. We have begun to identify how genetic risk variants for autoimmune diseases disrupt immune cell circuits (Farh and Marson et al., Nature 2015; Simeonov et al., Nature, 2017), and how pathogenic circuits may be targeted with novel therapeutics (Xiao et al., Immunity 2014). My lab has developed new tools for efficient CRISPR genome engineering in primary human T cells (Schumann et al., PNAS 2015; Roth et al., Nature 2018; Nguyen et al. Nature Biotech 2020). Now we are pursuing a comprehensive strategy to test how coding and non-coding genetic variation control essential programs in the human immune system (Simeonov et al. Nature, 2017; Shifrut et al., Cell 2018; Roth et al., Cell 2020; Cortez et al., Nature 2020; Schumann et al., Nature Immunology 2020). Genome engineered human T cells hold great potential for the next generation of cell-based therapies for cancer, autoimmunity and infectious diseases.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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Harvard Medical School | M.D. | Medicine | 2010 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Ph.D. | Biology | 2008 |
University of Cambridge | M.Phil | Biological Sciences | 2003 |
Harvard College | A.B. | Biology | 2001 |
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Elected Member of Association of American Physicians (AAP) | 2022 | |
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Career Award | 2019 | |
Elected Member of American Society of Clinical Investigators (ASCI) | 2019 | |
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator | 2017 | |
American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Young Physician-Scientist Award | 2016 | |
Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Career Award for Medical Scientists | 2016 | |
NIDA/NIH Avenir New Innovator Award | 2016 | |
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Project Member | 2016 |
Grants and Funding
- Inherited T cell defects: Diagnosis, Mechanisms and Treatments | NIH | 2020-09-08 - 2025-08-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Functional Molecular Investigation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Risk Variants | NIH | 2018-09-18 - 2022-05-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Functional Interrogation of Non-Coding Type 1 Diabetes Risk Variants in Human Immune Cells and Beta Cells | NIH | 2016-09-30 - 2021-05-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Functional Testing of Host Genes that control HIV Latency in Primary Immune Cells | NIH | 2016-06-01 - 2021-05-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 116
- The lncRNA Malat1 inhibits miR-15/16 to enhance cytotoxic T cell activation and memory cell formation.| | PubMed
- Base-editing mutagenesis maps alleles to tune human T cell functions.| | PubMed
- Multiplexed CRISPR gene editing in primary human islet cells with Cas9 ribonucleoprotein.| | PubMed
- PIM kinases regulate early human Th17 cell differentiation.| | PubMed
- Gene regulatory network inference from CRISPR perturbations in primary CD4+ T cells elucidates the genomic basis of immune disease.| | PubMed
- HIC1 interacts with FOXP3 multi protein complex: Novel pleiotropic mechanisms to regulate human regulatory T cell differentiation and function.| | PubMed
- Multiplexed CRISPR gene editing in primary human islet cells with Cas9 ribonucleoprotein.| | PubMed
- Modular pooled discovery of synthetic knockin sequences to program durable cell therapies.| | PubMed
- CRISPR screens decode cancer cell pathways that trigger γδ T cell detection.| | PubMed
- The lncRNA Malat1 Inhibits miR-15/16 to Enhance Cytotoxic T Cell Activation and Memory Cell Formation.| | PubMed