CeMM Landsteiner Lecture 2026
Jay Shendure
Professor at the University of Washington and Scientific Director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology and the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine
Where babies come from: The invisible storyline of development, from zygote to newborn.
Monday, 11 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Festive Hall, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Host: Maria Rescigno
Please note that attendance requires prior registration. As capacity is limited, we encourage you to register early via the following link: https://cemm.at/about-cemm/events/register/landsteiner
Jay Shendure, MD, PhD, is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, and Scientific Director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology and the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine. His 2005 doctoral thesis with George Church included one of the first successful reductions to practice of next-generation DNA sequencing.
Dr. Shendure’s laboratory pioneered exome sequencing and its earliest applications to gene discovery for Mendelian disorders and autism; cell-free DNA diagnostics for cancer and reproductive medicine; massively parallel reporter assays; saturation genome editing; combinatorial single-cell molecular profiling; and longitudinal molecular recording.
He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award from the US National Academy of Sciences, the Mendel Award from the European Society of Human Genetics, and the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. Dr. Shendure received his BA from Princeton University (1996) and his MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School (2007).
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