Sudarshan Pinglay leads a research lab at the University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences and the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine. He received his PhD for research conducted in the labs of Jef Boeke and Liam Holt at NYU. Sudarshan developed tools for the “re-writing” of mammalian genomes through the synthesis of large DNA constructs and their targeted integration into cells. These tools are being applied to: 1) understand how genes are turned on and off; and 2) endow cells with sophisticated behaviors not found in nature.

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