Pamela Silver
Harvard University, USA
Designing diagnostic cells and therapeutic proteins
Abstract
We are approaching design of human cells to address real world applications ranging from sensing the environment to actionable outputs. For the first, we have developed a high throughput strategy to rapidly determine the effects of emerging pathogens on the host innate immune response and have applied this to SAR2 and other coronaviruses. Second, we design proteins to sustain cell and organoid life under extreme conditions as well as to act therapeutically on neglected diseases.
Short Bio
Pamela Silver is the Elliot T and Onie H Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. She is also a full member of the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering. She was one of the first members of the Department of Systems Biology and the first Director of the Harvard University Graduate Program in Systems Biology.
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