Molecular Therapeutics Researchers
Center Faculty
Polina Anikeeva works at the intersection of materials science, electronics, and neurobiology to design and fabricate new tools to treat disorders of the nervous system.
Ed Boyden is designing proteins that can cross the blood-brain barrier with the goal of moving these new molecular strategies into clinical trials in humans.
Guoping Feng is developing advanced primate models for psychiatric and developmental disorders and creating innovative ways to deliver gene therapy cargo into the brain.
Fan Wang is developing novel molecular strategies to activate pain-suppression neurons in the brain’s central amygdala with the goal of creating a powerful therapeutic approach for alleviating pain.
Feng Zhang is leading a broad effort to expand and improve the CRISPR gene editing platform to target genes associated with complex brain disorders.
Y. Eva Tan Fellows
Valerio Francioni
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harnett Lab
Valerio Francioni combines in vivo subcellular imaging with brain-computer interfaces to study how dendrites shape the activity of cortical circuits during learning.
Miaomiao Jin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wang Lab
Miaomiao Jin studies pain anticipation and perception and identifies brain circuits that underlie self-stimulatory behaviors that can ease pain.
Yuting Ke
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jasanoff Lab
Yuting Ke works on the optimization of genetically encoded fMRI probes and their applications to cellular and circuit-level neuroimaging in multiple animal models.
Jaeyoung Yoon
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harnett Lab
Jaeyoung Yoon studies how dendrites shape the extraordinary computational capabilities of neurons and ultimately give rise to behavior in living organisms.
Other Sponsored Researchers
McGovern Fellow
Omar Abudayyeh creates next generation genome engineering technologies and applies them towards treatment of a variety of genetic disorders.
McGovern Fellow
Jonathan Gootenberg is designing efficient, robust genome engineering tools that can make a variety of DNA sequence alterations in any cell type.
Corban Swain
Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics Graduate Fellow, Boyden Lab
Corban Swain is developing novel microscopy techniques for correlating whole-brain structure to whole-brain function in larval zebrafish.