We aim to make cells virus-resistant by recoding human cells. This universal ultrasafe and virus-resistant cell line will be utilized for safe manufacturing of therapeutics and avoid bioreactor contamination like the Genzyme incident of 2009.

Funding

Funding Duration

July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020

Funding level

Pilot

People

Principal Investigator

George Church

PhD
Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Co-PI

Yuting Chen

PhD
Visiting Research Fellow from SIAT, Church Lab (EXT), Harvard Medical School

Eriona Hysolli

PhD
Research Fellow in Genetics (INT), Harvard Medical School

Intellectual Property

Patents

WO2020180975
:
Highly multipexed genome editing
(Patent application)