Position
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
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428 Moffett Laboratory
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Education
- A.B. Molecular Biology, Princeton University
- Ph.D. Systems Biology, Harvard University
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Honors and Awards
- STAT Magazine Wunderkind Award, 2020
- Forbes 30 Under 30, Healthcare category, 2019
- ASTMH Robert E. Shope, MD, Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, 2018
- Broad Institute Shark Tank Program, 2017
Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
- Associated Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Associated Faculty, Department of Chemistry
- Associated Faculty, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Research Interests
The Myhrvold lab is developing CRISPR-based technologies to study viral and host RNA. For more information about our research, see https://myhrvoldlab.com/research.
Selected Publications
- Kimchi O*, Larsen BB*, Dunkley ORS, te Velthuis AJW, and Myhrvold C. RNA structure modulates Cas13 activity and enables mismatch detection. bioRxiv.
- Kang B, Zhang J, Schwoerer MP, Nelson AN, Shoeman E, Guo A, Ploss A, and Myhrvold C. Highly multiplexed mRNA quantitation with CRISPR-Cas13. bioRxiv. In review.
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