Education

PhD, Bioengineering
UCSF & UC Berkeley

synthetic receptors, engineering macrophages, designer genes, programmable immunology.

Advisor: Kole T. Roybal

MS, Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

point of care diagnostics, 3D printing, flexible electronics

*second favorite city on earth

Advisor: Nathaniel Martinez


Experience

Venture Fellow
8VC

focus on novel modalities and under-ventured mechanism space in therapeutics & life sciences investing

Research Associate
Arc Institute

helped build the bridge-editing platform for large scale genome manipulation

Advisor: Patrick Hsu

Summer Research Fellow
New York University

nanobody engineering for alzheimers and parkinsons

Advisor: Einar Sigurdsson


selected work

Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA. Nature.

Rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in saliva via Cas13. Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Genome-wide, bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as critical host factors modulating SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nature Genetics.