Seth Shipman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
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Dr. Seth Shipman's research focuses on cellular systems in the midst of change. His lab seeks to better understand how the order of transcriptional events during development can drive changes in cell fate, and to better intervene in diseases characterized by change, like progressive neurodegeneration and cancer. His lab takes a molecular engineering approach, leveraging the versatility of DNA as a programmable biological polymer to gather data without destroying cells, and deliver therapeutics that can modify their effect based on cell context.
Dr. Shipman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF and an Assistant Investigator in the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology. He received his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Wesleyan University, his PhD in Neuroscience from UCSF, and completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School with George Church and Jeffrey Macklis. His postdoctoral work was in the top 30 most discussed articles of the year as ranked by Altmetric and was named as one of the top 25 stories of the year by Discover Magazine. He was a Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation, received a Bridge to Independence Award from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, and was recently named a DARPA Riser and one of 10 early- to mid-career scientists to watch by Science News (the SN10).
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