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Aravind Asokan
Professor in Surgery
Research Interests: VirologyRNA BiologyViral EngineeringRNA EngineeringGene TherapyGene EditingGene RegulationRegenerative Medicine
Nenad Bursac
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Embryonic and adult stem cell therapies for heart and muscle disease; cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue engineering; cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias; genetic modifications of stem and somatic cells; micropatterning of proteins and hydrogels.
Yarui Diao
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
Research Interests: 1. Develop new genomics technology to study gene regulation and chromatin dynamics.2. Determine the gene regulation mechanism of skeletal muscle regeneration.3. Delineate the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms controlling rhabdomyosarcoma tumorigenesis.
Charles Gersbach
Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Gene therapy, genomics and epigenomics, biomolecular and cellular engineering, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology.
Simon Gray Gregory
Professor in Neurology
Research Interests: Multiple Sclerosis Autism Coronary Artery Disease Prostate and Lung cancer Epigenetics of human disease Application of single cell technologies to basic and translational research Precision medicine of neurological disease
Bill Majoros
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics andBioinformatics
Research Interests: Probabilistic machine learning Bayesian graphical models Structured prediction Interpretation/prioritization of genetic variants in disease RNA splicing Gene regulation Computational linguistics - formal grammars and parsing Syntactic structure and memetic evolution in complex...
Xiling Shen
Hawkins Family Associate Professor
Research Interests: Precision medicine for cancer, regeneration, microbiome, and gut-brain axis. Multi-omics approaches including organoid, epigenetics, CRISPR, single-cell, metabolomics, machine learning, droplet microfluidics, humanized immune model and intravital imaging.
Benjamin Yellen
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Development of single cell analysis tools using magnetic circuits, and multiparticle assembly of colloidal crystals