Bio

I am the VP of Cell Engineering at Gameto and received my PhD from Harvard in Genetics in the lab of Professor George Church. My thesis research was on applications of transcription factor overexpression technologies in driving human oogenesis in vitro from induced pluripotent stem cells. To this goal, I developed tools for genetic screening in human cells for high throughput combinatorial studies of gene function. I generated both granulosa cells and oocyte-like cells in vitro to build a human ovary in a dish for use in fertility modeling and therapeutic discovery. I am now pursuing this core technology developments at Gameto to translate this work for use in fertility treatment and therapeutic discovery in women’s health.