Jerzy Szablowski

Jerzy Szablowski is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and a member of Neuroengineering Initiative at Rice University where he leads the Laboratory for Noninvasive Neuroengineering developing technologies for noninvasive control, monitoring, and treatment of the brain. He received his B.Sc. in Biological Engineering from MIT in 2009, and worked on engineering protein contrast agents for MRI in collaboration with Alan Jasanoff’s, Robert Langer, Frances Arnold’s research groups. He then received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech in 2015 for his work on programmable therapeutics for modulating gene expression in animal models of cancer in the Dervan laboratory. Following this, he developed Acoustically Targeted Chemogenetics (ATAC) in the Shapiro laboratory at Caltech, where he developed new methods for neuromodulation of specific neural circuits. He was a recipient of several awards, including the Packard Fellowship, NARSAD Young Investigator award, the Synthetic Standard Prize from the International Genetic Engineering competition, and the BE-BMES prize for excellence in biomedical research.

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Website: szablowskilab.org

Twitter: @jerzyszablowski