Artificial intelligence for state-of-the-art gene therapy Jacob Witten, PhDPostdoctoral FellowAnderson LabMassachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract:Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for RNA delivery have exploded onto the biomedical research scene with the success of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. In addition to their promise as mRNA vaccines for infectious disease and cancer, LNPs have the potential to treat or...

Engineering multistate trackable cells for smart precision therapeutics Arash Farhadi, PhDPostdoctoral ScholarVoigt LabMassachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract:The engineering of immune cells and microbes into living therapeutics is emerging as a powerful approach for treating many diseases. However, two key challenges must be addressed to unlock the full potential of living therapeutics: intricately programming cells to...