Jonathan Weissman

Dr. Weissman’s research team studies how cells ensure correct protein folding, and the role of protein misfolding in disease. The team also develops innovative tools for broadly exploring organizational principles of biological systems, including ribosome profiling in protein translation, CRIPSRi/a for controlling the expression of human genes and rewiring the epigenome, and lineage tracing tools to record the history of cells.

Dr. Weissman was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, where he worked with Arthur Horwich studying the mechanism of molecular chaperone protein GroEL.

Dr. Weissman has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2009.