J. Keith Joung

J. Keith Joung is an American pathologist and molecular biologist who holds the Robert B. Colvin Endowed Chair in Pathology[1] at Massachusetts General Hospital and is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.[2] He is a leading figure in the field of genome editing and has pioneered the development of designer nucleases and sensitive off-target detection methods.[3]

Education

In 1987, Joung graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in biochemical sciences.[4] He received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard University.[5]

Career

Joung is most well known for his work in genome editing and has contributed to the development of designer nucleases through protein engineering and assays for off-target detection.[6][7][8] In the mid-2000s, his research was focused on creating zinc finger nuclease tools for biological research and gene therapy.[6] He was the leader and founder of the Zinc Finger Consortium and co-authored a study on Oligomerized Pool Engineering (OPEN), a publicly available strategy for rapidly constructing multi-finger arrays.[9][10]

More recently, he contributed to the development of TAL effector, TALENs, and the RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 system. In addition to demonstrating the use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in vivo through the zebrafish model,[11] he pioneered the creation of tools such as GUIDE-seq and CIRCLE-seq to detect nuclease off-targets within the genome.[7][12] In 2016, his group became one of the first to report engineered high-fidelity CRISPR/Cas9 nucleases (HF1) with no detectable off-target effects.[13]

He is also one of the scientific co-founders of Editas Medicine, along with Jennifer Doudna, Feng Zhang, George Church, and David Liu.[14]

References
  1. "Keith Joung, MD, PhD, was recognized as the inaugural incumbent of the Robert B. Colvin Endowed Chair in Patholog".
  2. "Joung Laboratory - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA". massgeneral.org. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  3. Nair, Prashant (3 May 2016). "QnAs with Jennifer Doudna". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (18): 4884–4886. Bibcode:2016PNAS..113.4884N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1605008113. PMC 4983843. PMID 27092008. S2CID 8873309.
  4. https://www.asgct.org/about/board-officers/j-keith-joung-md-phd
  5. https://ccib.mgh.harvard.edu/joung#research
  6. Wade, Nicholas (28 December 2009). "In New Way to Edit DNA, Hope for Treating Disease". The New York Times.
  7. Tsai, Shengdar Q.; Zheng, Zongli; Nguyen, Nhu T.; Liebers, Matthew; Topkar, Ved V.; Thapar, Vishal; Wyvekens, Nicolas; Khayter, Cyd; Iafrate, A. John; Le, Long P.; Aryee, Martin J.; Joung, J. Keith (February 2015). "GUIDE-seq enables genome-wide profiling of off-target cleavage by CRISPR-Cas nucleases". Nature Biotechnology. 33 (2): 187–197. doi:10.1038/nbt.3117. PMC 4320685. PMID 25513782. Lay summary.
  8. https://www.genomeweb.com/gene-silencinggene-editing/crispr-researchers-develop-highly-sensitive-method-identification-target#.XH8ifqeZNZ1
  9. "The Zinc Finger Consortium | Consortium Members". zincfingers.org. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  10. Maeder, Morgan L.; Thibodeau-Beganny, Stacey; Osiak, Anna; Wright, David A.; Anthony, Reshma M.; Eichtinger, Magdalena; Jiang, Tao; Foley, Jonathan E.; Winfrey, Ronnie J.; Townsend, Jeffrey A.; Unger-Wallace, Erica; Sander, Jeffry D.; Müller-Lerch, Felix; Fu, Fengli; Pearlberg, Joseph; Göbel, Carl; Dassie, Justin P.; Pruett-Miller, Shondra M.; Porteus, Matthew H.; Sgroi, Dennis C.; Iafrate, A. John; Dobbs, Drena; McCray, Paul B.; Cathomen, Toni; Voytas, Daniel F.; Joung, J. Keith (July 2008). "Rapid 'Open-Source' Engineering of Customized Zinc-Finger Nucleases for Highly Efficient Gene Modification". Molecular Cell. 31 (2): 294–301. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2008.06.016. PMC 2535758. PMID 18657511.
  11. Hwang, Woong Y.; Fu, Yanfang; Reyon, Deepak; Maeder, Morgan L.; Tsai, Shengdar Q.; Sander, Jeffry D.; Peterson, Randall T.; Yeh, J.-R. Joanna; Joung, J. Keith (March 2013). "Efficient genome editing in zebrafish using a CRISPR-Cas system". Nature Biotechnology. 31 (3): 227–229. doi:10.1038/nbt.2501. PMC 3686313. PMID 23360964.
  12. Tsai, Shengdar Q.; Nguyen, Nhu T.; Malagon-Lopez, Jose; Topkar, Ved V.; Aryee, Martin J.; Joung, J. Keith (June 2017). "CIRCLE-seq: a highly sensitive in vitro screen for genome-wide CRISPR–Cas9 nuclease off-targets". Nature Methods. 14 (6): 607–614. doi:10.1038/nmeth.4278. PMC 5924695. PMID 28459458.
  13. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P.; Pattanayak, Vikram; Prew, Michelle S.; Tsai, Shengdar Q.; Nguyen, Nhu T.; Zheng, Zongli; Joung, J. Keith (January 2016). "High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects". Nature. 529 (7587): 490–495. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..490K. doi:10.1038/nature16526. PMC 4851738. PMID 26735016.
  14. https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2013/11/25/editas-medicine-to-develop-new-class-of-genome-editing-therapeutics/
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