Ben Kleinstiver

Ben Kleinstiver is a biochemist and genome editor whose interests include translating technologies into molecular medicines. He received his Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario, and completed his postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Within the Center for Genomic Medicine at MGH, the Kleinstiver laboratory seeks to address limitations of CRISPR genome editing technologies while solving important research questions at the forefront of the genome editing field.

Research Interests

dna breaks, double-stranded; dna breaks, single-stranded; dna cleavage; endodeoxyribonucleases; endonucleases; genome, bacterial

Education

• PhD University of Western Ontario 2013