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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We're proud to share the 2026 #ASGCT Catalyst award with our collaborators at CHOP and Danaher, and even more proud to see Baby KJ thriving after receiving the first ever personalized #CRISPR therapy! Read more here: ow.ly/WmpP50YYtby

IGI's Fyodor Urnov and colleagues from CHOP and Danaher on stage at ASGCT, receiving the award

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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Honored to receive the inaugural “Above and Beyond” award from the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), alongside Xiao Peng, Josh Milner, and Jennifer Puck, for our efforts to organize newborn screening for inborn errors of immunity by genomic sequencing!

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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Congrats to IGI Investigator Matt Kan! 🥂 Learn more about Matt's journey in science and his immunology research in our short profile: innovativegenomics.org/news/meet-an...

illustration of Matt looking over the SF Bay

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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thanks to @erictopol.bsky.social for the in-depth coverage of this story. We are proud to be part of the team that created this treatment and thrilled to see KJ doing so well! 🧬

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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Elated to share that I was awarded a K08 clinician-scientist research career development award from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases!

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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"We’re trying to accomplish a vision of genome editing that people have been dreaming about for 40 or 50 years, but didn’t have the tools. And now... We finally have the tools." — IGI physician-scientist @matthewkan.bsky.social Read more: ow.ly/VbGk50Shaz1 #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #CRISPR

illustration of Matt and his son looking across the Bay

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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders

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clellandlab.bsky.social @clellandlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This beautiful and moving story tells the story of Linde's fight to change the future of those with genetic FTD. We are working to create a CRISPR MAPT-FTD therapy and a better future for Linde and all with genetic neurodegenerative conditions. Thanks for sharing your story Linde! shorturl.at/DOK1J

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A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate (Gift Article)

A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

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Amanda Alker @atp-alker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨 If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊

The Alker lab at the University of Rhode Island is hiring (students, postdocs and lab staff)! We use cutting edge tools in microbiology to investigate marine animal symbioses. Email or DM for further inquiries

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