Amit Choudhary
Chemist, biophysicist and professor Amit Choudhary is
a renowned pioneer in the development of precision control tools for
genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 in multiple systems, including gene
drives. In 2011 Amit was appointed a Junior Fellow of the Harvard
Society of Fellows and was hosted by Professor Stuart Schreiber at the
Broad Institute where his research focused on beta-cell chemical
biology. Amit’s laboratory, The Choudhary Laboratory, now develops
chemical technologies and studies exceptional organisms that survive
conditions considered pathological to humans. The Choudhary Laboratory
has been widely recognized by the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation’s Innovation Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Award at
the Scientific Interface, NIH Director's Transformative Research Award,
DARPA's Safe Genes award, and Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in
Biomedical Sciences. Amit is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, an Associate Biologist at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and
Harvard.
CRISPR-Taming Chemist
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