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Name
Francisco J. Sánchez-Rivera, PhD
Title
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at MIT Koch, Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Bio
Francisco Sánchez-Rivera is an HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow, a member of the Koch Institute, and joined the MIT faculty in 2022 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology. Sánchez-Rivera obtained his BS in microbiology from the University of Puerto Rico and his PhD in biology from MIT. As a PhD student, he was among the first to use CRISPR to investigate cancer drivers in vivo and identify genotype-specific dependencies in lung adenocarcinoma. He developed and applied CRISPR base editing methods to engineer mutations with high efficiency and precision in living animals to study tumor evolution.