Matthew Hebden Porteus is Sutardja Chuk Professor of Definitive and Curative Medicine at Stanford University.[1] In 2003, as a postdoctoral fellow in David Baltimore's lab at the California Institute of Technology, Porteus was the first to demonstrate precise gene editing in human cells using chimeric nucleases.[2]

Matthew Porteus
Alma materHarvard University
Stanford University
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisIsolation and Characterization of TES-1/DLX-2: A Novel Homeobox Gene Expressed During Mammalian Forebrain Development (1994)

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and completed his MD and PhD at Stanford University.[3] For his post-doctoral work he trained with David Baltimore at MIT and Caltech.[3] He is a scientific founder of CRISPR Therapeutics and an academic founder of Graphite Bio.[4][5]

He has an h-index of 69 according to Google Scholar.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Matthew Porteus". Stanford University School of Medicine. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. ^ Porteus MH, Baltimore D (May 2003). "Chimeric nucleases stimulate gene targeting in human cells". Science. 300 (5620): 763. doi:10.1126/science.1078395. PMID 12730593. S2CID 34460337.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Matthew Porteus". CRISPR Therapeutics. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  4. ^ "There Are Now Two Pushes to Treat Sickle Cell Disease With CRISPR". CRISPR Medicine News. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  5. ^ "About Us: Academic Founders". Graphite Bio. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Matthew Porteus". Google Scholar. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
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