Jay Shendure, Ph.D.

Jay Shendure, MD, PhD is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, and Scientific Director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (Allen-CZI-UW), the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, and the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine. His lab is known for the development and application of genomic technologies to outstanding challenges in genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology. Dr. Shendure is the recipient of the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics, the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences and the Mendel Award from the European Society of Human Genetics. He is also an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences. He received his MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School.