Lei "Stanley" Qi (; born August 17, 1983) is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, and the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. Qi led the development of the first catalytically dead Cas9 lacking endonuclease activity (dCas9), which is the basis for

CRISPR interference CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) is a genetic perturbation technique that allows for sequence-specific repression of gene expression in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It was first developed by Stanley Qi and colleagues in the laboratories of Wen ...

(CRISPRi). His laboratory subsequently developed CRISPR-Genome Organization (CRISPR-GO). Qi is a co-inventor of the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

patent on the CRISPR gene-editing technology.

Early life and education

Qi obtained his B.S. in physics and math from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

, China, Master in physics from

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, and PhD in bioengineering from UC Berkeley. During his PhD work at Berkeley, he studied synthetic biology with Adam Arkin, and was the first to explore engineering the CRISPR for targeted gene editing and gene regulation with

Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a ...

. After PhD, he performed independent research work as a faculty fellow at UCSF. He joined the Stanford faculty in 2014.

Award

Qi has won awards, including NIH Director's Early Independence Award, Pew Biomedical Scholar, and Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship.

References

External links

Qi Lab in Stanford

Qi Lab in UCSF
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