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Fyodor Urnov

Fyodor Dmitriyevich Urnov (Russian: Фёдор Дми́триевич Урнов; born 1968) is a Russian-born scientist who has played an important role in the field of genome editing. He is a Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as Director of the Center for Translational Genomics at the university’s Innovative Genomics Institute. In 2005, Urnov and his colleagues created the term “genome editing” and showed the first use of ZFNs to change DNA in human cells.

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William Greenleaf (American scientist)

William J. Greenleaf (born December 24, 1979) is an American molecular biologist, biophysicist, and inventor who is a professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research focuses on using high-throughput sequencing and optical microscopy to study gene regulation and chromatin structure.

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Michael Fischbach

Michael Andrew Fischbach was born on November 3, 1980. He is an American scientist who studies chemicals, tiny living things, and genes. He is a teacher and researcher at Stanford University and also holds the title of ChEM-H Faculty Fellow.

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Wendell Lim

Wendell Lim is an American biochemist who holds the title of Byer’s Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. He leads the UCSF Cell Design Institute. He earned his A.B.

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David Savage

David Savage (1830–1893) was an English-born Methodist minister who served as a pastor and evangelist in Upper Canada for many years. In the 1880s, he used methods from the Salvation Army to train groups of young men and women to help with his religious services. Many of them later became evangelists themselves.

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Virginia Cornish

Cornish earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1991 while working under Professor Ronald Breslow. Her doctoral research focused on site-specific protein labeling and mutagenesis, which she conducted with Peter Schultz. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT through the National Science Foundation, working with Robert T.

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Philippe Horvath

Philippe Horvath is a French scientist who works for DuPont Nutrition and Health. His research was important in creating CRISPR-Cas, a useful method for changing genes in a specific way. For this work, he received the 2015 Massry Prize along with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.

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Rodolphe Barrangou

Rodolphe Barrangou is the Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in Probiotics Research in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University. He is also a Co-Founder and CEO of CRISPR Biotechnologies, a Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Ancilia Biosciences, a Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of TreeCo, and a Co-Founder and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Intellia Therapeutics.

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Patrick Hsu

Patrick D. Hsu (born in 1993) is an American bioengineer, entrepreneur, and investor who works in the areas of CRISPR, machine learning, synthetic biology, and gene therapy. He is an assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-founder of Arc Institute, a research organization that focuses on speeding up discoveries in medicine.

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Feng Zhang

Feng Zhang (Chinese: 张锋; pinyin: Zhāng Fēng; born October 22, 1981) is a scientist who was born in China and now works in the United States. He holds the position of James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also an important member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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