Fyodor Urnov
Clinic-minded genome + epigenome editor. Professor of Molecular Therapeutics, UC Berkeley. Director for Technology and Translation, Innovative Genomics Institute, ibid.
Beatles fan.
Art work credit: Fyodor Vasiliev "A Meadow in the Rain" (1872).
- This Thursday at the #ASGCT in New Orleans: Sadik Kassim (Danaher), Kiran Musunuru (Penn) and yours truly will chart a fundamentally new map to #CRISPR cures. See you at 830a (Room 291) and at 10a (Hall F). Image: Mary Cassatt "The Map" (1890)
- I am moved by news of the upcoming film about Rosalind Franklin. I have a Jewish great-grandmother, Marie Frenkel, who died in her late 30s of ovarian cancer. I can see her haplotypes in my DNA (see below) and often think of her and Franklin (who suffered the same fate). deadline.com/2025/05/nata...
- A tractable, actionable path to CRISPR cures on demand is much closer than one might think. Ryan Cross of @endpts.com reports in detail on this in a piece that covers work at the IGI and also Penn Medicine by Kiran Musunuru and colleagues. We'll find a way or make one. endpts.com/crispr-isnt-...
