Steven Dowdy

Professor at UCSD School of Medicine, USA

Speaker

Dr. Dowdy is a Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Molecular Genetics from UC Irvine and performed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute, MIT. Prior to moving his lab to UCSD in 2001, he was an assistant professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He was also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His lab is focused on the molecular details of delivery of RNA therapeutics across the endosomal lipid bilayer and the synthesis of endosomal escape domains to overcome this billion year old barrier.