Keren Lasker, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute

 

2023 Moore Inventor Fellow

 
Keren Lasker, Ph.D.
Image credit: Scripps Research
 

Research Description

Dr. Lasker’s invention is a condensate-based biotechnology designed to selectively recruit toxic protein aggregates known to be associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Her research team explores the structure, function, and adaptation of bacterial condensates and has pioneered engineering of proteins to create synthetic condensates in human cells.

 
 

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Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology, Stanford University
Ph.D., Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
M.Sc., Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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