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Full Members*:

J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D. (Consortium leader and co-founder)
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Expertise in zinc finger engineering, selection, and design.
Joung lab webpage

Daniel Voytas, Ph.D. (Consortium co-founder)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Expertise in plant biology and in the use of ZFNs for gene targeting in plants.
Voytas lab webpage

Toni Cathomen, Ph.D.
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Expertise in the use of ZFNs for gene targeting in mammalian cells and in development of gene therapy vectors.
Cathomen lab webpage

Bruce R. Blazar, M.D.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Expertise in preclinical models and clinical translation of lymphohematopoietic cell transfer
Blazar lab webpage

Linzhao Cheng, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Expertise in genetic manipulation of human stem cells
Cheng lab webpage

George M. Church, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Expertise in high-throughput sequencing, homologous recombination, synthetic biology, and personal genomics
Church lab webpage

Drena L. Dobbs, Ph.D.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Expertise in bioinformatics and computational biology
Dobbs lab webpage

Mark Isalan, Ph.D.
EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Programme, Barcelona, Spain
Expertise in the engineering, selection, and design of zinc finger domains.
Isalan lab webpage

Paul B. McCray, Jr., M.D.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Expertise in cystic fibrosis and gene transfer to respiratory epithelia.
McCray lab webpage

Randall Peterson, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Expertise in zebrafish technologies and chemical biology
Peterson lab webpage

Matthew Porteus, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Expertise in the use of ZFNs for gene targeting in mammalian cells.
Porteus lab webpage

Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Expertise clinically relevant stem cell gene correction of congenital disorders
Tolar web page

Éva Scheuring Vanamee, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Expertise in the structure-function of restriction endonucleases
Vanamee lab webpage

Amy K. Walker, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Expertise in transcriptional regulation in the C. elegans germline and embryo
Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center C. elegans Core Facility webpage

*Full members are contributing resources to the design and implementation of the standardized Consortium platform for zinc finger and ZFN engineering.

Associate Members:

Dana Carroll, Ph.D.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Expertise in homologous recombination, gene targeting, and ZFNs.
Carroll lab webpage

Jin-Soo Kim, Ph.D.
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Expertise in zinc finger engineering
Kim lab webpage