Jay Shendure, 2019 Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2025 Lounsbery Lecutre on “Reconstructing Mammalian Development” at Stanford University on April 30 at 7:00 pm Eastern. During his talk, Shendure will describe his ongoing efforts to develop and apply technologies aimed at the global, systematic reconstruction of mammalian development, in both in vitro and in vivo settings.

This lecture is open to the public and will be webcast live. 

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About Jay Shendure

Jay Shendure is a geneticist recognized for his development and application of genomic technologies to outstanding challenges in genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology. Shendure was born and raised in northeastern Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 with a degree in molecular biology and from Harvard Medical School in 2007 with an M.D. and Ph.D. in genetics. He joined the faculty of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in 2007 and has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2015. Shendure directs both the Allen Discovery Center for Lineage Tracing and the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine.

Shendure is a recipient of the 2012 Curt Stern Award (American Society of Human Genetics), the 2013 FEDERAprijs, a 2013 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the 2019 Richard Lounsbery Award (National Academy of Sciences), and the 2022 Mendel Lectureship (European Society of Human Genetics). He currently or previously has served as an advisor to the NIH Director, the US Precision Medicine Initiative, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Allen Institute. Shendure is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences.